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 Ireland and from Woodstock.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 the Sonics to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Whodini. All the underground hits.
All Andrew Hill tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Public Image Ltd. record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Moebius record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Donny Hathaway,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Traffic Nightmare,
Lakeside,
Guru Guru,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Busters,
Newcleus,
David Bowie,
Robert Wyatt,
Sister Nancy,
The Invisible,
Zero Boys,
The Blues Magoos,
MDC,
Radiohead,
Charles Mingus,
Leonard Cohen,
Pulsallama,
Motorama,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Stereo Dub,
LL Cool J,
The Tremeloes,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
EPMD,
Adolescents,
The Leaves,
Can,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Fad Gadget,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Eli Mardock,
CMW,
The Raincoats,
Colin Newman,
New Order,
Steve Hackett,
Max Romeo,
T. Rex,
Rakim,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Radio Birdman,
Aloha Tigers,
Pole,
Royal Trux,
The Detroit Cobras,
OOIOO,
a-ha,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Blake Baxter,
Scratch Acid,
Yellowson,
Cameo,
Brick,
Bronski Beat,
The Saints,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Electric Prunes,
Radiopuhelimet, Radiopuhelimet, Radiopuhelimet, Radiopuhelimet.
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.