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 Iraq and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 Lille and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Hoover to the jazz kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Scratch Acid. All the underground hits.
All Theoretical Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every ABC 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Flash Fearless record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Sherman,
Robert Görl,
Sandy B,
DJ Sneak,
Sixth Finger,
Harpers Bizarre,
Los Fastidios,
Marmalade,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Gun Club,
Bauhaus,
Clear Light,
The Techniques,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Hot Snakes,
Rod Modell,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Raincoats,
Toni Rubio,
The Remains,
Tim Buckley,
Youth Brigade,
Country Teasers,
Scion,
Graham Central Station,
Kevin Saunderson,
Dawn Penn,
Audionom,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Invisible,
Suicide,
Hoover,
The Fortunes,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Mars,
Flipper,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Barbara Tucker,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Bootsy Collins,
The Dead C,
Sound Behaviour,
The Motions,
Laurel Aitken,
Monolake,
Grauzone,
Robert Wyatt,
Delta 5,
Alton Ellis,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Erykah Badu,
The Young Rascals,
Amon Düül,
Davy DMX,
Depeche Mode,
the Sonics,
Ronan, Ronan, Ronan, Ronan.
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.