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 Mexico and from Delhi.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 Holger Czukay 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 Lakeside to the dance 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 David McCallum. All the underground hits.
All Television Personalities tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Q and Not U record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 mellotron and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Brass Construction record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Bar-Kays,
the Soft Cell,
Icehouse,
Gang Starr,
Oblivians,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Davy DMX,
Dave Gahan,
Lou Reed,
Neil Young,
Hoover,
The Last Poets,
Masters at Work,
Fluxion,
E-Dancer,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
DJ Style,
Joensuu 1685,
Bauhaus,
Pere Ubu,
Kenny Larkin,
Buzzcocks,
Guru Guru,
Matthew Bourne,
Patti Smith,
Dual Sessions,
The Raincoats,
Sonic Youth,
Zero Boys,
Wire,
Massinfluence,
Rites of Spring,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Vainqueur,
The Dead C,
Robert Wyatt,
Stetsasonic,
Soul II Soul,
Junior Murvin,
Unwound,
Pantaleimon,
Shuggie Otis,
Duran Duran,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Morten Harket,
Cybotron,
Basic Channel,
The Cramps,
Ituana,
Aaron Thompson,
Little Man,
The Saints,
R.M.O.,
Jeru the Damaja,
Marvin Gaye,
Scott Walker,
Judy Mowatt,
The Stooges,
Thee Headcoats,
Animal Collective,
The Gap Band,
Gang Green,
Electric Prunes,
Malaria!, Malaria!, Malaria!, Malaria!.
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.