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 Honduras and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 Donald Fagen 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 The Seeds to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Kool G Rap & DJ Polo. All the underground hits.
All Clear Light tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kevin Saunderson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Outsiders 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?
Hasil Adkins,
Rufus Thomas,
The Vogues,
cv313,
The Trojans,
Sonny Sharrock,
Mo-Dettes,
Ronan,
Eric B and Rakim,
Todd Terry,
Negative Approach,
10cc,
Hashim,
Roxy Music,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Marc Almond,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Intrusion,
Mission of Burma,
Agent Orange,
Crispy Ambulance,
Dark Day,
Gastr Del Sol,
T. Rex,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Radiopuhelimet,
Rhythm & Sound,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Supertramp,
Pierre Henry,
Spandau Ballet,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Mojo Men,
The Dirtbombs,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Soulsonic Force,
Pole,
Siglo XX,
Marcia Griffiths,
Grandmaster Flash,
Tom Boy,
Bobby Womack,
The Cowsills,
Glenn Branca,
Sam Rivers,
DNA,
Faraquet,
Lower 48,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Hardrive,
Organ,
Sandy B,
The Fuzztones,
The Wake,
Sexual Harrassment,
Wasted Youth,
Gang Starr,
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You don't know what you really want.
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You don't know what you really want.
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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.