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 Chile and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 chamberlin 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 Neil Young & Crazy Horse to the disco kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Gabor Szabo. All the underground hits.
All The Mojo Men 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 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 marimba and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Man Parrish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Duran Duran,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Bobby Sherman,
Aswad,
Cheater Slicks,
Colin Newman,
Lightning Bolt,
K-Klass,
The Gories,
Black Pus,
Robert Wyatt,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
AZ,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Black Flag,
Rakim,
Roger Hodgson,
Pet Shop Boys,
These Immortal Souls,
Audionom,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Fela Kuti,
Black Sheep,
Eden Ahbez,
Sandy B,
The Mummies,
Gang of Four,
Flash Fearless,
Unrelated Segments,
New Order,
Mars,
The Gun Club,
Bill Near,
Spoonie Gee,
Janne Schatter,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Rites of Spring,
The Blackbyrds,
The Cowsills,
Aloha Tigers,
Suicide,
Donald Byrd,
New York Dolls,
David McCallum,
Don Cherry,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Real Kids,
The Trojans,
Silicon Teens,
Tom Boy,
Amazonics,
Jacob Miller,
Intrusion,
Carl Craig,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Isaac Hayes,
Deepchord,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Graham Central Station, Graham Central Station, Graham Central Station, Graham Central Station.
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.