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 Madagascar and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 DJ Style to the rock kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Isaac Hayes. All the underground hits.
All The Leaves tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Throbbing Gristle 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Flipper record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Barbara Tucker,
Kevin Saunderson,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Kas Product,
The J.B.'s,
Rod Modell,
10cc,
Alphaville,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Youth Brigade,
T. Rex,
Brand Nubian,
Traffic Nightmare,
Matthew Halsall,
This Heat,
Gang Starr,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Gang Green,
the Association,
Q and Not U,
Ituana,
Eddi Front,
The Toasters,
Stiv Bators,
Arthur Verocai,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Hashim,
Sound Behaviour,
Swell Maps,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Parry Music,
Crispian St. Peters,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Walker Brothers,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Warren Ellis,
Alison Limerick,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Radiohead,
Bill Wells,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Yaz,
Toni Rubio,
Simply Red,
Erykah Badu,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Pantytec,
Aloha Tigers,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Soft Cell,
Black Pus,
Electric Prunes,
Jesper Dahlback,
Eyeless In Gaza,
John Cale,
Popol Vuh,
Alton Ellis,
Suicide,
Lightning Bolt,
Fad Gadget,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse.
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.