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 Panama and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Delhi.
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 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 Easy Going to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Piero Umiliani. All the underground hits.
All Yazoo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Brass Construction 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Yazoo,
The Misunderstood,
Inner City,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Tommy Roe,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Saints,
Parry Music,
The Doors,
Agent Orange,
Hardrive,
The Offenders,
Sun City Girls,
The Gap Band,
Neu!,
New York Dolls,
PIL,
Mary Jane Girls,
Stetsasonic,
the Normal,
Fat Boys,
Flipper,
Howard Jones,
Scott Walker,
Todd Terry,
Moss Icon,
Blancmange,
Nils Olav,
Sonic Youth,
Pharoah Sanders,
Kool Moe Dee,
Adolescents,
Steve Hackett,
Make Up,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Supertramp,
Lalann,
Blake Baxter,
The Alarm Clocks,
Crooked Eye,
Lakeside,
Underground Resistance,
La Düsseldorf,
Q65,
Ronnie Foster,
Tres Demented,
Urselle,
John Foxx,
Jandek,
Donny Hathaway,
The Pop Group,
Quando Quango,
Robert Hood,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Matthew Bourne,
The Real Kids,
Moby Grape,
Angry Samoans,
Public Image Ltd.,
Silicon Teens,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Danielle Patucci,
Gang Gang Dance,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.