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 San Marino and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 marimba 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 The Toasters to the rap kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Harry Pussy. All the underground hits.
All Davy DMX tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Cure record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Altered Images,
10cc,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Ossler,
Jeru the Damaja,
Sarah Menescal,
Jeff Lynne,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Tropical Tobacco,
Harpers Bizarre,
Ultravox,
Arab on Radar,
The Five Americans,
The Index,
The Offenders,
Sexual Harrassment,
Schoolly D,
Throbbing Gristle,
Boz Scaggs,
Spandau Ballet,
Todd Rundgren,
Ornette Coleman,
Panda Bear,
Quando Quango,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Boogie Down Productions,
Duran Duran,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Fat Boys,
Flash Fearless,
Marvin Gaye,
a-ha,
Q and Not U,
Erasure,
Dennis Brown,
Guru Guru,
Glambeats Corp.,
Danielle Patucci,
the Bar-Kays,
Cameo,
Radiopuhelimet,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Sister Nancy,
Urselle,
New York Dolls,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Joe Finger,
The Blues Magoos,
Aswad,
K-Klass,
The Divine Comedy,
Excepter,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Parry Music,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Michelle Simonal,
Black Moon,
JFA,
Magma,
Roxette,
Interpol,
Echospace,
Piero Umiliani,
Essential Logic, Essential Logic, Essential Logic, Essential Logic.
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.