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 Australia and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 Gastr Del Sol to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Evens. All the underground hits.
All Little Man tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Newcleus 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jeff Mills record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rosa Yemen,
Gregory Isaacs,
Joe Finger,
Minny Pops,
Intrusion,
Flipper,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Wally Richardson,
Black Pus,
The Real Kids,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Hasil Adkins,
Marine Girls,
Visage,
Curtis Mayfield,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Johnny Clarke,
Ice-T,
Spoonie Gee,
Harry Pussy,
Reagan Youth,
Gichy Dan,
Drexciya,
Lower 48,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Ponytail,
E-Dancer,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Roxy Music,
Jeff Mills,
Robert Görl,
Sex Pistols,
Electric Prunes,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Hardrive,
Pere Ubu,
Laurel Aitken,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Blackbyrds,
The Durutti Column,
China Crisis,
Swans,
The United States of America,
Boredoms,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Steve Hackett,
Black Moon,
Rites of Spring,
Joyce Sims,
Ken Boothe,
Soft Machine,
Robert Hood,
Q and Not U,
Moss Icon,
Popol Vuh,
Fat Boys,
The Tremeloes,
Danielle Patucci,
Grauzone,
The Pretty Things,
LL Cool J,
Public Enemy, Public Enemy, Public Enemy, Public Enemy.
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.