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 Oman and from Salvador.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 The Mojo Men to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Fear. All the underground hits.
All Supertramp tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every cv313 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Index record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Duran Duran,
Rapeman,
Cecil Taylor,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Eve St. Jones,
Todd Rundgren,
EPMD,
Sällskapet,
Echospace,
Outsiders,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Blackbyrds,
Circle Jerks,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Dennis Brown,
Q65,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Searchers,
Eli Mardock,
Eric Dolphy,
Depeche Mode,
Ituana,
DNA,
Stockholm Monsters,
Jerry's Kids,
Sun Ra,
Crooked Eye,
Judy Mowatt,
The Neon Judgement,
Ralphi Rosario,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Youth Brigade,
Adolescents,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
In Retrospect,
PIL,
Cabaret Voltaire,
New York Dolls,
Chris Corsano,
Charles Mingus,
Radiopuhelimet,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Ten City,
ABBA,
Y Pants,
Nico,
Malaria!,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Birthday Party,
H. Thieme,
Rakim,
Danielle Patucci,
Kerrie Biddell,
Bill Near,
Eric Copeland,
Zero Boys,
Scientists,
Bush Tetras,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Nirvana,
kango's stein massive, kango's stein massive, kango's stein massive, kango's stein massive.
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.