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 Gambia and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 chamberlin 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 Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 to the grime 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 Deakin. All the underground hits.
All The Raincoats tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Larry & the Blue Notes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 harpsichord and a linndrum 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 rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Zapp,
Anthony Braxton,
Schoolly D,
Letta Mbulu,
Joe Finger,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Barbara Tucker,
The Saints,
The Vogues,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Skarface,
Ultra Naté,
Black Flag,
Sonic Youth,
Crooked Eye,
Oneida,
Magazine,
Amon Düül II,
Index,
David McCallum,
Silicon Teens,
The Cramps,
Moebius,
10cc,
Von Mondo,
Fatback Band,
Althea and Donna,
Das Ding,
Mary Jane Girls,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Knickerbockers,
Barry Ungar,
The Cowsills,
Mark Hollis,
Robert Wyatt,
Adolescents,
Young Marble Giants,
Marvin Gaye,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Leaves,
Brothers Johnson,
The Searchers,
Gil Scott Heron,
Nik Kershaw,
Jeru the Damaja,
Sparks,
Lightning Bolt,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Todd Terry,
Flamin' Groovies,
Soul II Soul,
Mad Mike,
The Toasters,
Nico,
Glambeats Corp.,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Dirtbombs,
The Pop Group,
Second Layer,
The Kinks,
Alice Coltrane,
DJ Sneak,
Kool Moe Dee,
EPMD,
Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs.
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.