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 United Kingdom and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Milan.
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 spring reverb 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 Nico to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Barbara Tucker. All the underground hits.
All Q and Not U tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Subhumans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kool Moe Dee record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Grass Roots,
The Slits,
Pantytec,
Alison Limerick,
Brothers Johnson,
Negative Approach,
Iggy Pop,
Echospace,
Rufus Thomas,
The Toasters,
Erasure,
Scion,
Suburban Knight,
The United States of America,
Rhythm & Sound,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Grey Daturas,
Bobby Womack,
Skarface,
Jacob Miller,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Wally Richardson,
Lyres,
Matthew Halsall,
Darondo,
The Skatalites,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Throbbing Gristle,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Joy Division,
Aaron Thompson,
Oblivians,
Max Romeo,
Boredoms,
10cc,
World's Most,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Stiv Bators,
Monolake,
Janne Schatter,
H. Thieme,
Oneida,
Spoonie Gee,
Babytalk,
Gastr Del Sol,
Delta 5,
Maleditus Sound,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Glenn Branca,
X-Ray Spex,
Curtis Mayfield,
Pole,
Mission of Burma,
The Barracudas,
Jesper Dahlback,
Au Pairs,
Lalann,
Magazine,
Mark Hollis,
Franke,
The Associates, The Associates, The Associates, The Associates.
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.