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 Indonesia and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Manchester.
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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Agent Orange to the punk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Cybotron. All the underground hits.
All the Association tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minny Pops record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 guitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eli Mardock record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marshall Jefferson,
Todd Rundgren,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Lalo Schifrin,
Stetsasonic,
Youth Brigade,
The Toasters,
Boredoms,
The Real Kids,
The Raincoats,
Monolake,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Soft Cell,
Smog,
The Modern Lovers,
Thee Headcoats,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Los Fastidios,
Derrick May,
World's Most,
Flamin' Groovies,
Minor Threat,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Panda Bear,
Babytalk,
Silicon Teens,
Young Marble Giants,
Average White Band,
This Heat,
The Dead C,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Ash Ra Tempel,
R.M.O.,
Henry Cow,
Bauhaus,
The Gun Club,
Bootsy Collins,
Harpers Bizarre,
Letta Mbulu,
Ten City,
Heaven 17,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
T.S.O.L.,
Gichy Dan,
Jacob Miller,
The Shadows of Knight,
Kool Moe Dee,
Bill Wells,
Nico,
Peter & Gordon,
John Foxx,
Malaria!,
Bizarre Inc.,
Warren Ellis,
The Fuzztones,
Newcleus,
Cybotron,
Glambeats Corp.,
Rotary Connection,
AZ,
Mars,
Kenny Larkin, Kenny Larkin, Kenny Larkin, Kenny Larkin.
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.