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 Monaco and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Shanghai.
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 guitar 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 Piero Umiliani to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 X-102. All the underground hits.
All ABBA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Josef K 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marshall Jefferson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Quadrant,
the Normal,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Q65,
Boz Scaggs,
Josef K,
The Residents,
PIL,
Piero Umiliani,
The Tremeloes,
The Fortunes,
Royal Trux,
Flash Fearless,
Eddi Front,
The Index,
Lungfish,
Interpol,
Television Personalities,
Thompson Twins,
Zero Boys,
the Association,
Country Teasers,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
T.S.O.L.,
Leonard Cohen,
Joensuu 1685,
Talk Talk,
8 Eyed Spy,
Idris Muhammad,
The Motions,
Kenny Larkin,
Con Funk Shun,
Public Image Ltd.,
Wasted Youth,
Lindisfarne,
Anakelly,
Crooked Eye,
Supertramp,
Colin Newman,
Chris & Cosey,
The Pretty Things,
The Modern Lovers,
Bootsy Collins,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Lebanon Hanover,
Joe Smooth,
OOIOO,
Index,
The Grass Roots,
The Beau Brummels,
Tomorrow,
Fad Gadget,
Wolf Eyes,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Mad Mike,
The New Christs,
Sixth Finger,
Technova, Technova, Technova, Technova.
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.