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 Tunisia and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron 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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Motorama to the crunk 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 ABBA. All the underground hits.
All Silicon Teens tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Germs 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Morten Harket record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Darondo,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Jeff Lynne,
Patti Smith,
David McCallum,
Depeche Mode,
Alton Ellis,
Letta Mbulu,
Donny Hathaway,
Sixth Finger,
Crime,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Motions,
Minutemen,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Talk Talk,
The Zeros,
Eric B and Rakim,
Soul II Soul,
Joe Finger,
Blossom Toes,
The Index,
Kas Product,
Idris Muhammad,
Oneida,
Television,
Nas,
Tommy Roe,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Isaac Hayes,
Yazoo,
David Axelrod,
Ronan,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Section 25,
Scientists,
Kurtis Blow,
The Litter,
Deepchord,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Ponytail,
Eli Mardock,
Anthony Braxton,
Inner City,
Sandy B,
The Young Rascals,
Visage,
Tim Buckley,
Delon & Dalcan,
Robert Hood,
Lucky Dragons,
The Alarm Clocks,
Minny Pops,
Wally Richardson,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Divine Comedy,
Unwound,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu.
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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.