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 Italy and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 Donald Fagen 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 Maleditus Sound to the grime kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Infiniti. All the underground hits.
All Fluxion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Black Flag record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fela Kuti record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Derrick Morgan,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Marine Girls,
The Neon Judgement,
Brothers Johnson,
Soft Cell,
Franke,
Gerry Rafferty,
Robert Görl,
Todd Rundgren,
Nation of Ulysses,
Flipper,
The Gun Club,
Ossler,
Little Man,
Sight & Sound,
Mad Mike,
EPMD,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Magma,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Danielle Patucci,
Josef K,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Arthur Verocai,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Bill Wells,
Minor Threat,
E-Dancer,
Spoonie Gee,
UT,
Pole,
Scott Walker,
Wings,
The Wake,
The Evens,
Tim Buckley,
ABBA,
Essential Logic,
Gil Scott Heron,
Scrapy,
Khruangbin,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Stooges,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Aaron Thompson,
Pet Shop Boys,
Barry Ungar,
Wasted Youth,
Matthew Bourne,
Leonard Cohen,
KRS-One,
Excepter,
The Tremeloes,
Heaven 17,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Mission of Burma, Mission of Burma, Mission of Burma, Mission of Burma.
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.