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 Togo and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez 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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 mellotron 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 Hardrive to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Neu!. All the underground hits.
All Cameo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Drexciya 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Pop Group record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Reed,
Hashim,
Bad Manners,
Absolute Body Control,
Sparks,
Basic Channel,
Dawn Penn,
Silicon Teens,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Swell Maps,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Kinks,
Ituana,
Dual Sessions,
John Holt,
Eve St. Jones,
Surgeon,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Mantronix,
Isaac Hayes,
Fatback Band,
Nas,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Nico,
Rekid,
Tropical Tobacco,
Funky Four + One,
Junior Murvin,
Guru Guru,
Television Personalities,
The Dave Clark Five,
Dave Gahan,
The American Breed,
LL Cool J,
The Trojans,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Sun Ra,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Sonic Youth,
the Sonics,
Magazine,
Warren Ellis,
Bush Tetras,
Jesper Dahlback,
Aural Exciters,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Pretty Things,
The Stooges,
Skriet,
Neil Young,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Pagans,
The Black Dice,
The Neon Judgement,
The Standells,
Amazonics,
Cameo,
Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp..
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.