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 Congo and from London.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 güiro 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 Quantec to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Lonnie Liston Smith. All the underground hits.
All Model 500 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pet Shop Boys 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Groovy Waters 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?
Neu!,
The Fire Engines,
Tommy Roe,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Ornette Coleman,
Judy Mowatt,
Lower 48,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Interpol,
the Swans,
Grauzone,
In Retrospect,
Blancmange,
Anakelly,
Girls At Our Best!,
DJ Sneak,
La Düsseldorf,
Pharoah Sanders,
Brick,
The Gap Band,
Drive Like Jehu,
the Normal,
Yaz,
Crime,
Bluetip,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Liliput,
Matthew Bourne,
Desert Stars,
Can,
The Count Five,
Prince Buster,
The Slits,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Derrick May,
Johnny Clarke,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Monks,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Minor Threat,
Kenny Larkin,
New Age Steppers,
Leonard Cohen,
Dawn Penn,
Youth Brigade,
Popol Vuh,
Joey Negro,
The Remains,
Max Romeo,
Public Enemy,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Throbbing Gristle,
Smog,
Urselle,
Darondo,
Terry Callier,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Terrestrial Tones,
These Immortal Souls,
Half Japanese, Half Japanese, Half Japanese, Half Japanese.
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.