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 Sudan and from Columbus.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 linndrum 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 Joey Negro to the punk 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 Depeche Mode. All the underground hits.
All Franke tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kayak record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Minor Threat record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Con Funk Shun,
Todd Rundgren,
Make Up,
Colin Newman,
Morten Harket,
The Beau Brummels,
Bizarre Inc.,
Fugazi,
Sun Ra,
Fluxion,
Nico,
Audionom,
Shoche,
R.M.O.,
The Selecter,
Charles Mingus,
The Dirtbombs,
Country Teasers,
Index,
Joe Finger,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Guru Guru,
cv313,
Fela Kuti,
Eve St. Jones,
The Happenings,
Marine Girls,
Andrew Hill,
Rotary Connection,
Adolescents,
Skriet,
Oneida,
Wings,
Leonard Cohen,
Joe Smooth,
Minor Threat,
Hashim,
Parry Music,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Vladislav Delay,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Kinks,
Jesper Dahlback,
Funky Four + One,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Index,
Groovy Waters,
Intrusion,
The Motions,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Toasters,
Tomorrow,
Theoretical Girls,
Harpers Bizarre,
Slick Rick,
Howard Jones,
Roger Hodgson,
Faust,
Sonic Youth,
Jeru the Damaja, Jeru the Damaja, Jeru the Damaja, Jeru the Damaja.
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.