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 Kyrgyzstan and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 David Bowie 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 Intrusion to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan. All the underground hits.
All Gang Starr tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Crash Course in Science record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 a synthesizer and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Cure record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Siglo XX,
The Slits,
Patti Smith,
The Dave Clark Five,
Alison Limerick,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Fall,
The Martian,
Agitation Free,
Deakin,
New Order,
Mission of Burma,
Minnie Riperton,
Sex Pistols,
Black Bananas,
Altered Images,
Wings,
Neu!,
The Monochrome Set,
Duran Duran,
Underground Resistance,
Sparks,
Frankie Knuckles,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Golliwogs,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Ash Ra Tempel,
John Coltrane,
Arcadia,
Nils Olav,
The Tremeloes,
Deepchord,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Lightning Bolt,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Althea and Donna,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Man Parrish,
Masters at Work,
Rotary Connection,
MC5,
Wire,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Lalo Schifrin,
Warren Ellis,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Shoche,
Arthur Verocai,
The Remains,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Eddi Front,
Camouflage,
The Velvet Underground,
James White and The Blacks,
Eli Mardock,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Gang Green,
JFA,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Gabor Szabo,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.