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 France and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 DeepChord presents Echospace to the funk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Brothers Johnson. All the underground hits.
All The Royal Family And The Poor tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Black Sheep 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Manfred Mann's Earth Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cymande,
Mary Jane Girls,
Schoolly D,
F. McDonald,
Monolake,
La Düsseldorf,
ABC,
Drexciya,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Letta Mbulu,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Max Romeo,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Pop Group,
Joy Division,
Marine Girls,
Slick Rick,
Essential Logic,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Gastr Del Sol,
Morten Harket,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Dennis Brown,
The Tremeloes,
Absolute Body Control,
Von Mondo,
Big Daddy Kane,
Guru Guru,
Delon & Dalcan,
Roxette,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Niagra,
Nas,
Aloha Tigers,
Mad Mike,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Swell Maps,
Bauhaus,
Crooked Eye,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
World's Most,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Shadows of Knight,
Altered Images,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
OOIOO,
Thee Headcoats,
Dave Gahan,
Henry Cow,
Lou Christie,
Jeru the Damaja,
Yusef Lateef,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Kerrie Biddell,
X-102,
Soft Machine,
H. Thieme,
Little Man,
Marshall Jefferson,
Aswad,
The Fire Engines,
Supertramp,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Magma, Magma, Magma, Magma.
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.