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 Kosovo and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 Donald Fagen 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 Moebius to the funk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra. All the underground hits.
All La Düsseldorf tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Absolute Body Control record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Johnny Osbourne record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Skarface,
Little Man,
Bronski Beat,
Nas,
Idris Muhammad,
Bang On A Can,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Angels of Light,
Arcadia,
the Germs,
Alison Limerick,
The Vogues,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Country Teasers,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Jerry's Kids,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Inner City,
Eli Mardock,
Yaz,
Dead Boys,
Jawbox,
June of 44,
Severed Heads,
Mars,
Tomorrow,
Massinfluence,
Swans,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Sarah Menescal,
Rapeman,
Visage,
Black Bananas,
Essential Logic,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Swell Maps,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
John Holt,
Cybotron,
Nick Fraelich,
Anthony Braxton,
The Young Rascals,
John Cale,
Glambeats Corp.,
Scott Walker,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Theoretical Girls,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Gang Gang Dance,
Harpers Bizarre,
Monks,
Joensuu 1685,
Robert Görl,
Camberwell Now,
Hardrive,
The Move,
F. McDonald,
Sex Pistols,
The Buckinghams,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Toni Rubio, Toni Rubio, Toni Rubio, Toni Rubio.
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.