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 Bahamas and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 marimba 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 Technova to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Josef K. All the underground hits.
All The Cosmic Jokers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Groovy Waters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Saccharine Trust record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Morten Harket,
Quando Quango,
Fatback Band,
Q and Not U,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Bizarre Inc.,
Todd Rundgren,
Dark Day,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Ken Boothe,
The Searchers,
World's Most,
Pantytec,
Trumans Water,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Joe Finger,
Can,
Swell Maps,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Jacob Miller,
Black Bananas,
Blake Baxter,
Clear Light,
Tomorrow,
Scientists,
Mark Hollis,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Altered Images,
Von Mondo,
Gang of Four,
Half Japanese,
Skriet,
Lower 48,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Carl Craig,
Cameo,
Ralphi Rosario,
Warsaw,
Glenn Branca,
Thompson Twins,
Absolute Body Control,
Davy DMX,
Hardrive,
Smog,
Theoretical Girls,
Deepchord,
Gang Starr,
B.T. Express,
Albert Ayler,
Boz Scaggs,
The Gladiators,
Little Man,
Kerri Chandler,
Siglo XX,
Flamin' Groovies,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Walker Brothers,
Aural Exciters,
Kurtis Blow,
Sonny Sharrock,
David Bowie,
Joe Smooth,
Technova,
Banda Bassotti, Banda Bassotti, Banda Bassotti, Banda Bassotti.
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.