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 Thailand and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Sonics to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane. All the underground hits.
All Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marmalade record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 a synthesizer and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Prince Buster record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
MC5,
The Searchers,
Absolute Body Control,
Camberwell Now,
Sly & The Family Stone,
the Soft Cell,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
David Axelrod,
Jesper Dahlback,
Kerri Chandler,
Ken Boothe,
Swell Maps,
Morten Harket,
K-Klass,
Agitation Free,
Laurel Aitken,
L. Decosne,
Scientists,
Visage,
Joe Finger,
Gang Green,
Fat Boys,
Eric B and Rakim,
Cluster,
Wire,
Gil Scott Heron,
Buzzcocks,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
LL Cool J,
Wally Richardson,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Lalann,
Scan 7,
Isaac Hayes,
Nirvana,
PIL,
Jawbox,
The Zeros,
Chris Corsano,
Joe Smooth,
Deakin,
Kevin Saunderson,
Oblivians,
Schoolly D,
Michelle Simonal,
The Pop Group,
Warren Ellis,
Piero Umiliani,
10cc,
Gong,
The Skatalites,
Aaron Thompson,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Mo-Dettes,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Agent Orange,
Sound Behaviour,
Amazonics,
Royal Trux, Royal Trux, Royal Trux, Royal Trux.
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.