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 Macedonia and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 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 UT to the dance 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 David McCallum. All the underground hits.
All the Sonics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sun Ra record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 guitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Royal Family And The Poor record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alton Ellis,
Jandek,
Basic Channel,
Graham Central Station,
Panda Bear,
Eli Mardock,
The Techniques,
Joey Negro,
Index,
China Crisis,
Grey Daturas,
Echospace,
Roger Hodgson,
Avey Tare,
Pere Ubu,
Blake Baxter,
Electric Prunes,
Harpers Bizarre,
MC5,
The Monochrome Set,
Au Pairs,
Massinfluence,
Donny Hathaway,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Nils Olav,
The Selecter,
A Certain Ratio,
Technova,
The Five Americans,
Procol Harum,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Fluxion,
Average White Band,
Can,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Masters at Work,
Radiopuhelimet,
Tears for Fears,
Freddie Wadling,
Lucky Dragons,
Mars,
The Beau Brummels,
Ornette Coleman,
Organ,
Q and Not U,
The Pop Group,
LL Cool J,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
David McCallum,
Gastr Del Sol,
Arthur Verocai,
Radiohead,
Half Japanese,
Dave Gahan,
Quando Quango,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Black Dice,
Hot Snakes,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five.
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.