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 East Timor and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 David Bowie 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 Au Pairs to the disco 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 Stereo Dub. All the underground hits.
All Bronski Beat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Monks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jacob Miller,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Sam Rivers,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Masters at Work,
L. Decosne,
the Fania All-Stars,
Visage,
Gang Starr,
Matthew Bourne,
Heaven 17,
Excepter,
Skriet,
Janne Schatter,
Ludus,
Lou Reed,
Hardrive,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Gabor Szabo,
Malaria!,
The Buckinghams,
Howard Jones,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Five Americans,
Unwound,
Amon Düül,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Eve St. Jones,
Ralphi Rosario,
Nick Fraelich,
The Fuzztones,
Q and Not U,
Niagra,
Deadbeat,
Cal Tjader,
The Barracudas,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Black Dice,
Albert Ayler,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Outsiders,
Liliput,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Public Image Ltd.,
48th St. Collective,
Monks,
Faust,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Stiv Bators,
Ornette Coleman,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Crooked Eye,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Hasil Adkins,
The Associates,
Slave,
Johnny Clarke,
D'Angelo, D'Angelo, D'Angelo, D'Angelo.
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.