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 Libya and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 güiro 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 Bauhaus to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Gang Green. All the underground hits.
All Angels of Light & Akron/Family tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DeepChord presents Echospace 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sonny Sharrock,
The Offenders,
The Count Five,
Thee Headcoats,
Iggy Pop,
Duran Duran,
Supertramp,
Pet Shop Boys,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Rhythm & Sound,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Lightning Bolt,
Rod Modell,
Soft Cell,
Scan 7,
Brand Nubian,
Technova,
Little Man,
Idris Muhammad,
Scientists,
Fear,
The Fortunes,
Zero Boys,
Crispy Ambulance,
Arcadia,
Prince Buster,
The Fall,
Lakeside,
Jesper Dahlback,
MC5,
The Cowsills,
Susan Cadogan,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Pantytec,
Visage,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Wake,
Inner City,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Barry Ungar,
Rakim,
The New Christs,
The Dirtbombs,
Kurtis Blow,
Michelle Simonal,
Peter & Gordon,
The Barracudas,
Massinfluence,
Au Pairs,
Bauhaus,
F. McDonald,
Surgeon,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Spoonie Gee,
X-Ray Spex,
Wings,
Jandek,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Sun City Girls,
Wasted Youth,
Dark Day,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Be Bop Deluxe, Be Bop Deluxe, Be Bop Deluxe, Be Bop Deluxe.
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.