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 Africa and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 Captain Beefheart 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 Kings Of Tomorrow 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 Babytalk. All the underground hits.
All Max Romeo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Zeros 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joyce Sims record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Minnie Riperton,
Dawn Penn,
Circle Jerks,
Stereo Dub,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Gang Green,
Adolescents,
Reagan Youth,
Warsaw,
Kool Moe Dee,
the Soft Cell,
Japan,
Quadrant,
Glambeats Corp.,
Desert Stars,
The Fall,
Depeche Mode,
June of 44,
Accadde A,
Ronan,
Terrestrial Tones,
Matthew Halsall,
Wire,
Lucky Dragons,
Jeff Mills,
Eden Ahbez,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Electric Prunes,
Sun Ra,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
John Cale,
Gastr Del Sol,
In Retrospect,
Nick Fraelich,
Joe Smooth,
The Victims,
Cameo,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Happenings,
David Axelrod,
The Human League,
Michelle Simonal,
The Evens,
Soulsonic Force,
Connie Case,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Marmalade,
Q and Not U,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Vladislav Delay,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Hashim,
Morten Harket,
The Blackbyrds,
Radiopuhelimet,
Guru Guru,
Buzzcocks,
Barrington Levy,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron.
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.