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 Uzbekistan and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle 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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Sight & Sound. All the underground hits.
All The Toasters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hashim record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Con Funk Shun record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Basic Channel,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Shuggie Otis,
Nirvana,
David McCallum,
The Blues Magoos,
Soul Sonic Force,
Visage,
Dual Sessions,
Charles Mingus,
Moebius,
Scion,
Schoolly D,
K-Klass,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Real Kids,
Bill Wells,
Prince Buster,
The Shadows of Knight,
Nick Fraelich,
Main Source,
Gang Gang Dance,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Rakim,
Joensuu 1685,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Scan 7,
The Blackbyrds,
Chris Corsano,
Au Pairs,
Nico,
Danielle Patucci,
The Busters,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Model 500,
Kayak,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Sandy B,
Lee Hazlewood,
Desert Stars,
Rapeman,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Unrelated Segments,
Bobby Sherman,
The Mojo Men,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Cecil Taylor,
Fad Gadget,
Bobby Byrd,
Idris Muhammad,
Dorothy Ashby,
Throbbing Gristle,
Al Stewart,
Oneida,
Cheater Slicks,
Alton Ellis,
MC5,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Glenn Branca,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band.
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.