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 Malaysia and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Lyon.
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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Deakin to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 New York Dolls. All the underground hits.
All Janne Schatter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visage record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Black Bananas record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roger Hodgson,
Ice-T,
The Pretty Things,
Joyce Sims,
Lyres,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Country Teasers,
Soft Machine,
Michelle Simonal,
Harpers Bizarre,
Eric Dolphy,
Dave Gahan,
The Cramps,
The Mojo Men,
Rapeman,
Tomorrow,
Unwound,
Janne Schatter,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Raincoats,
Radiopuhelimet,
Marvin Gaye,
Tommy Roe,
Sam Rivers,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Mummies,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Rufus Thomas,
Vainqueur,
Robert Görl,
Jimmy McGriff,
Blancmange,
Jacob Miller,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
10cc,
Crime,
Eli Mardock,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Barracudas,
Brothers Johnson,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Chris & Cosey,
Matthew Halsall,
Sugar Minott,
Bobby Womack,
Fad Gadget,
Moby Grape,
Throbbing Gristle,
Hot Snakes,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Mission of Burma,
Roxette,
Malaria!,
Second Layer,
Blake Baxter,
Sandy B,
The Flesh Eaters,
Minutemen,
The Motions,
The Happenings,
DJ Style, DJ Style, DJ Style, DJ Style.
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.