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 Turkmenistan and from London.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Quadrant to the grime 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 Mantronix. All the underground hits.
All Bad Manners tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Morten Harket 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun Ra Arkestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Slave,
Pagans,
Reuben Wilson,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Arab on Radar,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Bill Wells,
Boredoms,
The Tremeloes,
Sam Rivers,
The Motions,
Soul Sonic Force,
Kayak,
Archie Shepp,
Altered Images,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Residents,
Newcleus,
Maleditus Sound,
The Pretty Things,
Sister Nancy,
Jawbox,
Porter Ricks,
The Walker Brothers,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Boz Scaggs,
The Victims,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Scott Walker,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Brick,
Chris & Cosey,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Rosa Yemen,
Nas,
The Human League,
Wolf Eyes,
Lakeside,
Fatback Band,
Slick Rick,
John Lydon,
Don Cherry,
The Smiths,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Black Dice,
Underground Resistance,
The Trojans,
Sandy B,
Nation of Ulysses,
Bobby Womack,
The Leaves,
Pole,
Laurel Aitken,
48th St. Collective,
Crime,
The Gap Band,
Gang Green,
The Litter,
Alice Coltrane,
Marcia Griffiths, Marcia Griffiths, Marcia Griffiths, Marcia Griffiths.
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.