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 Greece and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 theremin 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 Talk Talk to the punk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Ash Ra Tempel. All the underground hits.
All Josef K tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ash Ra Tempel 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Silicon Teens record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lucky Dragons,
Flamin' Groovies,
T. Rex,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Metal Thangz,
Cecil Taylor,
The Durutti Column,
Dave Gahan,
Leonard Cohen,
Howard Jones,
Kerri Chandler,
John Lydon,
The Motions,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Delon & Dalcan,
Los Fastidios,
Warren Ellis,
Dennis Brown,
The Gladiators,
Delta 5,
Soft Cell,
The Busters,
Qualms,
Smog,
Angry Samoans,
X-102,
The Music Machine,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Standells,
Frankie Knuckles,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Spoonie Gee,
Tommy Roe,
Donny Hathaway,
Can,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Dave Clark Five,
Tomorrow,
Main Source,
Trumans Water,
Absolute Body Control,
Bang On A Can,
the Association,
The American Breed,
Wolf Eyes,
Fela Kuti,
Brick,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Alarm Clocks,
Alice Coltrane,
Morten Harket,
Youth Brigade,
Derrick Morgan,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Harmonia,
Tropical Tobacco,
Steve Hackett,
a-ha,
Moss Icon,
Jimmy McGriff,
Kurtis Blow, Kurtis Blow, Kurtis Blow, Kurtis Blow.
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.