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 Panama and from Stockholm.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Babytalk to the funk 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 Duran Duran. All the underground hits.
All Lalann tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fela Kuti record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 spring reverb and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sound Behaviour record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kevin Saunderson,
LL Cool J,
Janne Schatter,
Bobby Womack,
Lucky Dragons,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Slackers,
Soft Cell,
The Human League,
Anakelly,
Kaleidoscope,
The Wake,
Newcleus,
Hoover,
The Misunderstood,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Fad Gadget,
UT,
Organ,
Piero Umiliani,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Matthew Halsall,
Roy Ayers,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Leaves,
New Age Steppers,
Matthew Bourne,
Camberwell Now,
Ice-T,
Faraquet,
T. Rex,
Talk Talk,
The Fugs,
Jeff Lynne,
Franke,
The Move,
Hardrive,
48th St. Collective,
Motorama,
Scrapy,
Easy Going,
Chris & Cosey,
Spandau Ballet,
Ultimate Spinach,
Guru Guru,
Donny Hathaway,
Slick Rick,
Harry Pussy,
Todd Terry,
cv313,
Tim Buckley,
Gichy Dan,
Sonic Youth,
Monolake,
Flamin' Groovies,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The J.B.'s,
The Young Rascals,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Bill Near,
Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance.
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.