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 Mexico and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in 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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 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 Whodini to the dance 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 A Certain Ratio. All the underground hits.
All Intrusion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Heaven 17 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Amon Düül II,
The Leaves,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
New Order,
One Last Wish,
Funky Four + One,
Todd Terry,
Cybotron,
The Associates,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Fort Wilson Riot,
the Soft Cell,
Aural Exciters,
The Fall,
Neil Young,
Radiopuhelimet,
Man Eating Sloth,
Country Teasers,
Easy Going,
Colin Newman,
Slick Rick,
Andrew Hill,
Brick,
Y Pants,
The Misunderstood,
U.S. Maple,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Theoretical Girls,
Scientists,
Oneida,
The New Christs,
The Happenings,
Grandmaster Flash,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Eve St. Jones,
The Slits,
Los Fastidios,
Monks,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Standells,
the Bar-Kays,
Thompson Twins,
Guru Guru,
Wolf Eyes,
The Black Dice,
Rhythm & Sound,
Rufus Thomas,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Young Marble Giants,
Monolake,
The Martian,
The Victims,
The Cowsills,
Eli Mardock,
Aswad,
Clear Light,
Average White Band,
Motorama,
Gang of Four,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Pere Ubu, Pere Ubu, Pere Ubu, Pere Ubu.
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.