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 Guinea and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 synthesizer 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 Joe Finger to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Negative Approach. All the underground hits.
All Swans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soulsonic Force 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Angry Samoans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Crispian St. Peters,
Howard Jones,
Bill Wells,
Sparks,
Throbbing Gristle,
Yazoo,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Bobby Sherman,
Delon & Dalcan,
One Last Wish,
Jeru the Damaja,
Sarah Menescal,
Faust,
China Crisis,
Todd Rundgren,
Los Fastidios,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Todd Terry,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Connie Case,
The Dead C,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Invisible,
LL Cool J,
John Foxx,
Wire,
Sixth Finger,
Flipper,
Model 500,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Residents,
The United States of America,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Stooges,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Hashim,
Robert Hood,
Boz Scaggs,
Dorothy Ashby,
Barbara Tucker,
Lyres,
The Blackbyrds,
Fugazi,
The Fortunes,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Soft Machine,
Groovy Waters,
The Alarm Clocks,
Whodini,
Aloha Tigers,
JFA,
Camberwell Now,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Depeche Mode,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Grandmaster Flash,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Bauhaus,
Mars, Mars, Mars, Mars.
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.