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 Somalia and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 Lou Reed 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 Main Source to the techno 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 Spandau Ballet. All the underground hits.
All Zapp tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every James Chance & The Contortions record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Essential Logic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Knickerbockers,
Eric B and Rakim,
Kevin Saunderson,
Make Up,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Danielle Patucci,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Junior Murvin,
Erykah Badu,
Black Flag,
MDC,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sight & Sound,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Hashim,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Blancmange,
Lakeside,
The Invisible,
Severed Heads,
The Barracudas,
Black Sheep,
Lungfish,
Bootsy Collins,
Girls At Our Best!,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Rod Modell,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Q and Not U,
OOIOO,
Outsiders,
the Soft Cell,
Pierre Henry,
Gong,
Banda Bassotti,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Lalo Schifrin,
Marc Almond,
Babytalk,
Soul II Soul,
Cybotron,
The Five Americans,
Jeru the Damaja,
Derrick May,
Bobby Womack,
Suicide,
the Germs,
Laurel Aitken,
Isaac Hayes,
Lindisfarne,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Buckinghams,
Khruangbin,
Fela Kuti,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Boredoms,
Marcia Griffiths,
Ice-T,
Stetsasonic,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Harry Pussy, Harry Pussy, Harry Pussy, Harry Pussy.
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.