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 Bhutan and from Bremen.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 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 Skriet to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Bluetip. All the underground hits.
All June of 44 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kings Of Tomorrow 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joy Division record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Flash Fearless,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Roxy Music,
Pere Ubu,
Faraquet,
The Offenders,
Tommy Roe,
Essential Logic,
Eden Ahbez,
The Mojo Men,
The Sound,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Piero Umiliani,
Peter and Kerry,
Bob Dylan,
Chris & Cosey,
Gong,
Scion,
Scrapy,
Eurythmics,
The J.B.'s,
Robert Görl,
Unwound,
Gang Green,
Marc Almond,
D'Angelo,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Boredoms,
Erykah Badu,
The Leaves,
Thompson Twins,
Reuben Wilson,
The Moody Blues,
Donny Hathaway,
Joensuu 1685,
The Busters,
The Kinks,
Tubeway Army,
Lyres,
Quantec,
Donald Byrd,
Kas Product,
Mad Mike,
Todd Terry,
Brothers Johnson,
Archie Shepp,
The Divine Comedy,
Cluster,
Crash Course in Science,
Jeff Mills,
Maurizio,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Bush Tetras,
Grauzone,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Blues Magoos,
Smog,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Panda Bear,
Gang of Four,
Cameo,
The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five.
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.