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 Spain and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 Michael McDonald 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 Derrick Morgan to the crunk 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 Zapp. All the underground hits.
All Public Image Ltd. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every UT 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The American Breed record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Slits,
Accadde A,
The Moleskins,
Quando Quango,
Joy Division,
Juan Atkins,
D'Angelo,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Nation of Ulysses,
Model 500,
Kas Product,
The Move,
The Birthday Party,
Thompson Twins,
Animal Collective,
Susan Cadogan,
Chrome,
Mars,
Pet Shop Boys,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
New York Dolls,
Von Mondo,
Black Bananas,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
David McCallum,
Jeff Mills,
The Selecter,
Slick Rick,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Piero Umiliani,
Black Sheep,
Youth Brigade,
Minnie Riperton,
Sun Ra,
Rites of Spring,
Bronski Beat,
Wings,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Raincoats,
Suburban Knight,
Fela Kuti,
Cluster,
Camberwell Now,
Boz Scaggs,
Silicon Teens,
Easy Going,
Malaria!,
Grauzone,
Niagra,
Andrew Hill,
Dead Boys,
L. Decosne,
Derrick Morgan,
Matthew Halsall,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Johnny Clarke,
Inner City,
Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone.
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.