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 South Sudan and from Houston.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Joe Smooth to the punk 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 La Düsseldorf. All the underground hits.
All Q65 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fugazi record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobby Sherman record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Beau Brummels,
The Modern Lovers,
The Fire Engines,
JFA,
Prince Buster,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Moleskins,
New Order,
LL Cool J,
Black Flag,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Soft Cell,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
ABBA,
FM Einheit,
Sight & Sound,
Bill Wells,
Shuggie Otis,
Buzzcocks,
Cameo,
The Cramps,
Joey Negro,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Television,
Johnny Clarke,
Infiniti,
Little Man,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Echospace,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Grey Daturas,
Gichy Dan,
Alison Limerick,
Judy Mowatt,
Symarip,
Ornette Coleman,
Scion,
Janne Schatter,
Intrusion,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Brick,
Scratch Acid,
Pulsallama,
Curtis Mayfield,
Terrestrial Tones,
Grandmaster Flash,
Letta Mbulu,
The Pretty Things,
Gang of Four,
The Dave Clark Five,
Deadbeat,
Livin' Joy,
Malaria!,
Black Pus,
Swell Maps,
Arab on Radar,
Scan 7,
Yellowson,
These Immortal Souls,
Soul Sonic Force,
Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub.
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.