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 South Sudan and from Manchester.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and New York.
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 spring reverb 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 Hardrive to the grime kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Rekid. All the underground hits.
All The Names tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roxy Music record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a A Certain Ratio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Thompson Twins,
Bang On A Can,
The Knickerbockers,
Delon & Dalcan,
Boredoms,
Khruangbin,
Leonard Cohen,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Doobie Brothers,
Von Mondo,
David Axelrod,
Kas Product,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
MC5,
Minny Pops,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
the Bar-Kays,
The Skatalites,
Ituana,
Deakin,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Tomorrow,
Peter & Gordon,
Tom Boy,
D'Angelo,
Reagan Youth,
Crispian St. Peters,
Lou Reed,
Kevin Saunderson,
A Certain Ratio,
Au Pairs,
the Sonics,
Girls At Our Best!,
Funkadelic,
Pylon,
Junior Murvin,
Public Image Ltd.,
Dark Day,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Searchers,
Sandy B,
X-102,
Janne Schatter,
Alice Coltrane,
Slave,
Liliput,
Massinfluence,
John Coltrane,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Ossler,
Public Enemy,
Black Pus,
DNA,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
John Cale,
The Gories,
Tres Demented,
Duran Duran,
Pierre Henry,
The Dead C,
Laurel Aitken,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Matthew Halsall, Matthew Halsall, Matthew Halsall, Matthew Halsall.
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.