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 Andorra and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 Holger Czukay 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 Organ to the rock 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 Radiohead. All the underground hits.
All Lalo Schifrin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Swans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Quantec record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
UT,
The Slits,
Ultravox,
Rotary Connection,
Arcadia,
David McCallum,
The Barracudas,
Nirvana,
Johnny Clarke,
The Kinks,
Grey Daturas,
Lightning Bolt,
The Tremeloes,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Arab on Radar,
Little Man,
Lungfish,
The Raincoats,
Eric B and Rakim,
KRS-One,
The Music Machine,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Fear,
Skriet,
Trumans Water,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
World's Most,
Jesper Dahlback,
Juan Atkins,
T. Rex,
The Names,
John Foxx,
Gang Gang Dance,
Unwound,
Eric Copeland,
Brothers Johnson,
LL Cool J,
Joe Smooth,
The Index,
Swans,
Freddie Wadling,
Radiopuhelimet,
Yusef Lateef,
PIL,
Schoolly D,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
D'Angelo,
Soul Sonic Force,
Hashim,
Mars,
Circle Jerks,
ABC,
Chris & Cosey,
Magma,
Panda Bear,
Au Pairs,
The Black Dice,
Marmalade,
The Detroit Cobras,
Mary Jane Girls, Mary Jane Girls, Mary Jane Girls, Mary Jane Girls.
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.