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 Cameroon and from Cairo.
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 1966 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Flash Fearless to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 The Knickerbockers. All the underground hits.
All Bronski Beat 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 techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Angels of Light & Akron/Family record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Gladiators,
Kerri Chandler,
Siglo XX,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Youth Brigade,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Agent Orange,
Scan 7,
Gang Green,
Ludus,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
cv313,
The Fugs,
Avey Tare,
Bobby Byrd,
the Slits,
Nas,
Terry Callier,
New Order,
Rites of Spring,
The Standells,
Pantytec,
Joey Negro,
Chris & Cosey,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Gories,
Soft Machine,
Neu!,
Newcleus,
Pet Shop Boys,
Icehouse,
ABC,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Zeros,
Subhumans,
Robert Wyatt,
Heaven 17,
Magma,
Amon Düül,
Liliput,
Cal Tjader,
The American Breed,
The United States of America,
Soul II Soul,
Barry Ungar,
Zero Boys,
The Skatalites,
The Angels of Light,
Aswad,
The Gap Band,
Sparks,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Beau Brummels,
Soft Cell,
Saccharine Trust,
Brothers Johnson,
Howard Jones,
Echospace,
Rhythm & Sound, Rhythm & Sound, Rhythm & Sound, Rhythm & Sound.
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.