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 Belgium and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 sitar 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 Echo & the Bunnymen to the dance kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Little Man. All the underground hits.
All K-Klass tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Motions record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Skaos record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tears for Fears,
Toni Rubio,
Radiohead,
Infiniti,
The Busters,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Jimmy McGriff,
Prince Buster,
John Lydon,
Ohio Players,
Hoover,
FM Einheit,
Fatback Band,
Marine Girls,
Curtis Mayfield,
Inner City,
Sister Nancy,
Can,
Dorothy Ashby,
Flipper,
The Red Krayola,
Hashim,
Johnny Osbourne,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Barbara Tucker,
Hardrive,
Quantec,
Au Pairs,
Moss Icon,
The Velvet Underground,
Janne Schatter,
Saccharine Trust,
Davy DMX,
Morten Harket,
Rekid,
Deakin,
Robert Hood,
Godley & Creme,
Lyres,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
CMW,
Rotary Connection,
Arcadia,
Minor Threat,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Bobby Byrd,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Skaos,
Mad Mike,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Ultra Naté,
Soft Cell,
Marc Almond,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Marmalade,
Darondo,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Eddi Front,
Moebius,
Shuggie Otis,
Roxette, Roxette, Roxette, Roxette.
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.