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 Philippines and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 marimba 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 Mantronix to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Japan. All the underground hits.
All Sound Behaviour tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scott Walker 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Sonics record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dorothy Ashby,
Sparks,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Soft Cell,
Talk Talk,
Country Teasers,
Cameo,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Pet Shop Boys,
Maleditus Sound,
The Walker Brothers,
Aural Exciters,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Black Bananas,
The Birthday Party,
Black Sheep,
Bronski Beat,
Livin' Joy,
Dawn Penn,
Scrapy,
The Techniques,
Bobby Womack,
Half Japanese,
Steve Hackett,
Fluxion,
Delta 5,
Todd Rundgren,
Yazoo,
Johnny Clarke,
David McCallum,
Robert Hood,
Glenn Branca,
Severed Heads,
Lou Christie,
Panda Bear,
Godley & Creme,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Big Daddy Kane,
John Lydon,
Bluetip,
Pussy Galore,
June Days,
Goldenarms,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Quando Quango,
Can,
EPMD,
The Sound,
Curtis Mayfield,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Patti Smith,
Schoolly D,
Jacob Miller,
Bill Wells,
Joey Negro,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Eric Dolphy,
Anthony Braxton,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Robert Wyatt,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals.
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.