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 Maldives and from Sao Paulo.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane to the disco 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 Sound Behaviour. All the underground hits.
All Gary Puckett & The Union Gap tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sam Rivers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Janne Schatter record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Lalann,
Jacob Miller,
The Divine Comedy,
The Moleskins,
The Fire Engines,
Spoonie Gee,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
A Certain Ratio,
Arthur Verocai,
Whodini,
Masters at Work,
Lebanon Hanover,
MC5,
Monolake,
Juan Atkins,
The Fortunes,
Bill Wells,
Bootsy Collins,
Young Marble Giants,
The Slackers,
Isaac Hayes,
Brass Construction,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Blackbyrds,
Tom Boy,
Pole,
John Cale,
Bobby Sherman,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Saccharine Trust,
Lucky Dragons,
Tears for Fears,
Brick,
Rotary Connection,
Minutemen,
ABC,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Throbbing Gristle,
Marmalade,
The Toasters,
John Foxx,
The Angels of Light,
Derrick May,
Patti Smith,
Kas Product,
Kenny Larkin,
Zero Boys,
Boredoms,
Cybotron,
Pussy Galore,
The Black Dice,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Darondo,
Scrapy,
FM Einheit,
Radio Birdman,
The Moody Blues,
Television,
The Move,
Quantec,
Gang of Four,
Sandy B,
Zapp,
Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash.
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.