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 Peru and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 Captain Beefheart 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 World's Most 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 Erasure. All the underground hits.
All Guru Guru tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Babytalk 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Underground Resistance record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Gories,
The Velvet Underground,
Delon & Dalcan,
Infiniti,
ABC,
Siglo XX,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Davy DMX,
Symarip,
Newcleus,
The Smoke,
the Human League,
The Last Poets,
Desert Stars,
the Normal,
Harmonia,
Scientists,
Darondo,
Cheater Slicks,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
48th St. Collective,
Bad Manners,
R.M.O.,
Gong,
Suburban Knight,
The Busters,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Erasure,
Talk Talk,
Radio Birdman,
Main Source,
Neil Young,
Cal Tjader,
Ultimate Spinach,
Mars,
Big Daddy Kane,
Mantronix,
Brass Construction,
Khruangbin,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Birthday Party,
Monolake,
Maurizio,
Thompson Twins,
John Foxx,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Standells,
Aaron Thompson,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
China Crisis,
Max Romeo,
June of 44,
The Sonics,
Marine Girls,
Amon Düül II,
The Evens,
Juan Atkins,
Chris Corsano,
a-ha,
In Retrospect,
The J.B.'s,
Gichy Dan,
The Buckinghams, The Buckinghams, The Buckinghams, The Buckinghams.
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.