Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Guinea-Bissau and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Siglo XX to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by 10cc. All the underground hits.
All Silicon Teens tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dave Gahan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Moby Grape record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Fire Engines,
Kevin Saunderson,
Michelle Simonal,
Siglo XX,
Bootsy Collins,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Wake,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Grey Daturas,
Robert Görl,
The Sonics,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Excepter,
Piero Umiliani,
Lalo Schifrin,
Clear Light,
The Young Rascals,
Youth Brigade,
Gang Gang Dance,
Bauhaus,
Moebius,
Ultimate Spinach,
Flipper,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Desert Stars,
Whodini,
Silicon Teens,
The Doobie Brothers,
Mission of Burma,
H. Thieme,
Fat Boys,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Newcleus,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Moby Grape,
June of 44,
Sam Rivers,
Reuben Wilson,
Saccharine Trust,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
the Bar-Kays,
Crispy Ambulance,
Amazonics,
ABC,
Pierre Henry,
The Golliwogs,
Hoover,
Quantec,
Aural Exciters,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Smiths,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Gap Band,
UT,
Scrapy,
Henry Cow,
Joensuu 1685,
Sparks,
Aloha Tigers,
Japan,
The Raincoats,
Flamin' Groovies,
Nils Olav, Nils Olav, Nils Olav, Nils Olav.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.