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 Palau and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Jacques Brel to the electroclash 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 Excepter. All the underground hits.
All Alphaville tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ossler record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Janne Schatter record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Susan Cadogan,
Pere Ubu,
Terry Callier,
Stereo Dub,
Sonic Youth,
The Last Poets,
Delta 5,
The New Christs,
Dead Boys,
Marshall Jefferson,
Wally Richardson,
Jeff Mills,
These Immortal Souls,
Byron Stingily,
The Seeds,
Dual Sessions,
Thee Headcoats,
John Coltrane,
Roy Ayers,
Surgeon,
LL Cool J,
Chris & Cosey,
Young Marble Giants,
Public Enemy,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
EPMD,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Rotary Connection,
The Five Americans,
Rosa Yemen,
Soul II Soul,
Al Stewart,
Fad Gadget,
the Normal,
Flash Fearless,
Con Funk Shun,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Pylon,
Sexual Harrassment,
Tropical Tobacco,
Magma,
Amon Düül,
Maleditus Sound,
R.M.O.,
Marine Girls,
Derrick Morgan,
Whodini,
Brothers Johnson,
U.S. Maple,
The Electric Prunes,
Eric Copeland,
Sound Behaviour,
Echospace,
Junior Murvin,
X-Ray Spex,
Rakim,
Neil Young,
Deakin,
Todd Rundgren,
ABBA,
Hashim,
Althea and Donna,
Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band.
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.