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 Tanzania and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 Michael McDonald 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 Cybotron to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Janne Schatter. All the underground hits.
All Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pierre Henry 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Chocolate Watch Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
John Holt,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Jesper Dahlback,
Sound Behaviour,
Animal Collective,
Anthony Braxton,
Masters at Work,
The Fuzztones,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Von Mondo,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Mantronix,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Kaleidoscope,
The Zeros,
Youth Brigade,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Kas Product,
Marine Girls,
Easy Going,
Crispian St. Peters,
David Bowie,
Urselle,
Lakeside,
Tomorrow,
Liliput,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
the Swans,
Kurtis Blow,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Aswad,
Mary Jane Girls,
Gregory Isaacs,
Hasil Adkins,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Donny Hathaway,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Hashim,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Crooked Eye,
Soft Machine,
Section 25,
Eric Dolphy,
Albert Ayler,
Stockholm Monsters,
Jeff Mills,
Nirvana,
Cluster,
Goldenarms,
Connie Case,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Toni Rubio,
Minnie Riperton,
Nils Olav,
Susan Cadogan,
Sonic Youth,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
One Last Wish,
Zapp,
Gong,
Hoover,
Babytalk,
New Order,
The Grass Roots, The Grass Roots, The Grass Roots, The Grass Roots.
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.