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 Iran and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Glasgow.
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 synthesizer 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 The Music Machine 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 Grandmaster Flash. All the underground hits.
All Bizarre Inc. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Misunderstood record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gregory Isaacs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Arab on Radar,
Country Teasers,
Bluetip,
Barbara Tucker,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Terrestrial Tones,
Surgeon,
Scratch Acid,
Magazine,
Gang Starr,
Parry Music,
Bootsy Collins,
Prince Buster,
Joy Division,
Skriet,
Bronski Beat,
Scott Walker,
Morten Harket,
Bobby Sherman,
Chris & Cosey,
Joey Negro,
Negative Approach,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Aloha Tigers,
Ronnie Foster,
Au Pairs,
Faraquet,
Funkadelic,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Dave Clark Five,
Das Ding,
Max Romeo,
The Fugs,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Fuzztones,
Agitation Free,
Massinfluence,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lower 48,
Oneida,
Mars,
Charles Mingus,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Stetsasonic,
Archie Shepp,
Pet Shop Boys,
Pantaleimon,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Electric Prunes,
Ten City,
Sparks,
Skaos,
The Durutti Column,
Brand Nubian,
Bizarre Inc.,
Rekid,
John Coltrane,
Donny Hathaway,
Soul Sonic Force,
Mantronix,
Heaven 17, Heaven 17, Heaven 17, Heaven 17.
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.