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 Singapore and from Halifax.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 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 Brass Construction to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Gian Franco Pienzio. All the underground hits.
All Suicide tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Japan 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soul Sonic Force record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar 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 Normal,
Lindisfarne,
The Electric Prunes,
Black Bananas,
Minor Threat,
Big Daddy Kane,
Gerry Rafferty,
Thompson Twins,
The Zeros,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Scan 7,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Public Image Ltd.,
Brothers Johnson,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Vogues,
Sarah Menescal,
Skarface,
Interpol,
Eve St. Jones,
The Knickerbockers,
Cecil Taylor,
Parry Music,
Todd Terry,
Reuben Wilson,
MC5,
Minutemen,
Robert Görl,
Half Japanese,
Absolute Body Control,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Fat Boys,
Derrick Morgan,
Marvin Gaye,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Lou Christie,
Easy Going,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
the Association,
The Buckinghams,
The Sonics,
8 Eyed Spy,
Janne Schatter,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Ultimate Spinach,
Index,
Warren Ellis,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Radio Birdman,
The Divine Comedy,
The Detroit Cobras,
The J.B.'s,
Kerrie Biddell,
Lucky Dragons,
Mo-Dettes,
Michelle Simonal,
Chris & Cosey,
Hot Snakes,
Drive Like Jehu,
John Cale,
Kayak,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Sandy B, Sandy B, Sandy B, Sandy B.
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.