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 Sierra Leone and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 Tom Verlaine 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 Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon to the grime 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 Lizzy Mercier Descloux. All the underground hits.
All Subhumans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter & Gordon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Davy DMX,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Jerry's Kids,
Skriet,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
10cc,
Sun Ra,
Sandy B,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Skarface,
The Sonics,
Intrusion,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Kool Moe Dee,
Talk Talk,
Gerry Rafferty,
Hashim,
Gang of Four,
8 Eyed Spy,
Bootsy Collins,
Pharoah Sanders,
Quantec,
Derrick Morgan,
Marine Girls,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Lalo Schifrin,
Arthur Verocai,
Don Cherry,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
OOIOO,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Gichy Dan,
Traffic Nightmare,
Aaron Thompson,
Max Romeo,
DJ Sneak,
Marmalade,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
John Lydon,
A Flock of Seagulls,
John Foxx,
Gong,
Ossler,
The Monochrome Set,
Icehouse,
Bronski Beat,
Black Flag,
Crime,
Magazine,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Move,
Duran Duran,
Fear,
Graham Central Station,
Flipper,
The Martian,
Average White Band,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Mars,
Rekid,
Wire, Wire, Wire, Wire.
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.