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 Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 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 Sister Nancy to the grime kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Mad Mike. All the underground hits.
All Siglo XX tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Oneida 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Normal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes 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?
L. Decosne,
Pere Ubu,
The Cure,
Girls At Our Best!,
Carl Craig,
Massinfluence,
Scratch Acid,
Niagra,
Erykah Badu,
The Alarm Clocks,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Vladislav Delay,
Roxette,
Dawn Penn,
Moss Icon,
Rekid,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Nation of Ulysses,
Visage,
Intrusion,
U.S. Maple,
Grey Daturas,
Bobby Hutcherson,
FM Einheit,
A Certain Ratio,
H. Thieme,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Lou Reed,
Theoretical Girls,
Letta Mbulu,
Crash Course in Science,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Sister Nancy,
Jeff Mills,
Sun City Girls,
Warsaw,
Ice-T,
Althea and Donna,
The Pop Group,
Minny Pops,
Minutemen,
Yellowson,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Ultra Naté,
Bobby Sherman,
Funkadelic,
Country Teasers,
The Monks,
Ornette Coleman,
Brothers Johnson,
Model 500,
Cheater Slicks,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Ultimate Spinach,
Harpers Bizarre,
OOIOO,
Blossom Toes,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Slick Rick,
The Happenings,
The Skatalites, The Skatalites, The Skatalites, The Skatalites.
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.