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 Iceland and from Tehran.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 rhodes 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 Slave to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Mars. All the underground hits.
All Donald Byrd tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Coltrane record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lalo Schifrin,
DJ Style,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Easy Going,
The Electric Prunes,
Lee Hazlewood,
Chris & Cosey,
Second Layer,
Arcadia,
Steve Hackett,
Cameo,
Magma,
Pierre Henry,
Cecil Taylor,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Das Ding,
The Angels of Light,
Prince Buster,
Animal Collective,
Michelle Simonal,
Icehouse,
Monks,
Negative Approach,
The Human League,
In Retrospect,
The Gap Band,
Colin Newman,
Aswad,
Freddie Wadling,
Severed Heads,
Spoonie Gee,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Kurtis Blow,
The Move,
Half Japanese,
Tomorrow,
Boredoms,
Faraquet,
Joe Smooth,
Scientists,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Bronski Beat,
Minnie Riperton,
James Chance & The Contortions,
LL Cool J,
Alice Coltrane,
Basic Channel,
Stiv Bators,
Isaac Hayes,
KRS-One,
Roger Hodgson,
This Heat,
Marmalade,
B.T. Express,
Skaos,
Erykah Badu,
Mark Hollis,
Interpol,
Harpers Bizarre,
Guru Guru,
Frankie Knuckles,
Drexciya,
Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth.
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.