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 Ethiopia and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 rhodes 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 Swell Maps to the crunk 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 Dark Day. All the underground hits.
All Eric Copeland tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Monochrome Set record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 808 and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun City Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Unrelated Segments,
The Mummies,
Throbbing Gristle,
Minny Pops,
Ice-T,
Glambeats Corp.,
Robert Wyatt,
L. Decosne,
ABC,
Gregory Isaacs,
Marc Almond,
Barrington Levy,
Terry Callier,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Von Mondo,
The Grass Roots,
Half Japanese,
The Slackers,
The Sound,
Qualms,
The Beau Brummels,
Electric Prunes,
Ronnie Foster,
Fugazi,
Schoolly D,
Young Marble Giants,
Circle Jerks,
Max Romeo,
Silicon Teens,
Yusef Lateef,
Lungfish,
Michelle Simonal,
Monolake,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Johnny Osbourne,
Jacob Miller,
Alton Ellis,
The Buckinghams,
Grandmaster Flash,
DJ Sneak,
The Birthday Party,
Sparks,
Derrick May,
Parry Music,
The Fall,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Move,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Donny Hathaway,
Wings,
Byron Stingily,
Agitation Free,
Lebanon Hanover,
D'Angelo,
Delta 5,
Joey Negro,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Amon Düül II,
Mo-Dettes, Mo-Dettes, Mo-Dettes, Mo-Dettes.
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.