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 Slovenia and from Taipei.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 arpeggiator 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 Connie Case to the grime kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Hashim. All the underground hits.
All Radiohead tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alison Limerick 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Zeros record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Minny Pops,
Bizarre Inc.,
Grandmaster Flash,
Ohio Players,
Joey Negro,
Colin Newman,
Goldenarms,
The Gories,
Mission of Burma,
Rekid,
Marvin Gaye,
Hardrive,
Young Marble Giants,
Negative Approach,
Girls At Our Best!,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Harmonia,
ABBA,
Stetsasonic,
Procol Harum,
The Slits,
The Zeros,
Kayak,
Barclay James Harvest,
Q and Not U,
Steve Hackett,
Amon Düül,
Judy Mowatt,
The Martian,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Black Dice,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Leaves,
Moss Icon,
The Residents,
Absolute Body Control,
David McCallum,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
China Crisis,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Searchers,
John Foxx,
The Moleskins,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Black Moon,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Average White Band,
Erykah Badu,
The Evens,
Jandek,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Slave,
The Blues Magoos,
Das Ding,
Scion,
The Blackbyrds,
Ice-T,
T. Rex,
Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire.
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.