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 Romania and from Hong Kong.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Ohio Players to the grunge kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Quantec. All the underground hits.
All Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Liaisons Dangereuses record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nico,
Adolescents,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Lightning Bolt,
Erykah Badu,
La Düsseldorf,
Prince Buster,
Pussy Galore,
Marc Almond,
Camouflage,
Fela Kuti,
The Stooges,
Sound Behaviour,
X-Ray Spex,
The Zeros,
Technova,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Reagan Youth,
Ohio Players,
Kayak,
Pylon,
Frankie Knuckles,
Gerry Rafferty,
Morten Harket,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Funky Four + One,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Anakelly,
Lee Hazlewood,
Brand Nubian,
Ossler,
Girls At Our Best!,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Fear,
Subhumans,
Big Daddy Kane,
Gang Starr,
The Saints,
The Doors,
Tim Buckley,
Joe Finger,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Skaos,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Sun City Girls,
The Selecter,
Steve Hackett,
Cluster,
the Association,
Groovy Waters,
John Foxx,
Jacob Miller,
The Moleskins,
Soulsonic Force,
The Red Krayola,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Martian,
Bobby Sherman,
Yellowson,
Skarface,
Aaron Thompson,
The Fugs,
The Dead C,
Gil Scott Heron,
Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown.
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.