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 Palau and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Saccharine Trust to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All R.M.O. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Procol Harum record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 spring reverb and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Selecter record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eyeless In Gaza,
Eve St. Jones,
Marine Girls,
The Fuzztones,
Amon Düül,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Hot Snakes,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Jerry's Kids,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sonic Youth,
Blossom Toes,
Nick Fraelich,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Swans,
David McCallum,
Basic Channel,
Gang Gang Dance,
Dual Sessions,
Yusef Lateef,
Echospace,
Todd Rundgren,
Harry Pussy,
Terry Callier,
The Divine Comedy,
Eurythmics,
the Germs,
The Human League,
Funky Four + One,
Skaos,
Stiv Bators,
The Motions,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Blancmange,
Ornette Coleman,
Girls At Our Best!,
Q and Not U,
Section 25,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Unrelated Segments,
Los Fastidios,
Henry Cow,
Radio Birdman,
Loose Ends,
Drexciya,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Bang On A Can,
Arab on Radar,
Niagra,
Roy Ayers,
Rapeman,
Flipper,
Ultimate Spinach,
Desert Stars,
James White and The Blacks,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Robert Görl, Robert Görl, Robert Görl, Robert Görl.
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.