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 Haiti and from Milan.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Bob Dylan to the rap 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 Simply Red. All the underground hits.
All Pulsallama tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every a-ha 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dennis Brown record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Minutemen,
Minor Threat,
Basic Channel,
Deepchord,
Interpol,
Zapp,
Erasure,
Minny Pops,
EPMD,
Jacob Miller,
Soft Machine,
Sight & Sound,
The Raincoats,
Fela Kuti,
Lungfish,
Avey Tare,
The Beau Brummels,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Aaron Thompson,
Sarah Menescal,
The Dirtbombs,
Terrestrial Tones,
the Association,
Joy Division,
Crime,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Techniques,
The Smoke,
David Axelrod,
Drive Like Jehu,
Roxy Music,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Chris & Cosey,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Vogues,
Rotary Connection,
Thompson Twins,
CMW,
Aloha Tigers,
Easy Going,
Fluxion,
Camberwell Now,
The Dave Clark Five,
Symarip,
Massinfluence,
Connie Case,
LL Cool J,
Ralphi Rosario,
Mantronix,
Outsiders,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Echospace,
The Gun Club,
Bootsy Collins,
The Golliwogs,
The Leaves,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Ultra Naté,
Swans, Swans, Swans, Swans.
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.