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 Croatia and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in 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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 The Mighty Diamonds to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Ralphi Rosario. All the underground hits.
All Pole tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gang Gang Dance record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 snare and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vaughan Mason & Crew record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Sandy B,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Silicon Teens,
The Doobie Brothers,
Boz Scaggs,
Alice Coltrane,
John Cale,
Kurtis Blow,
World's Most,
Camouflage,
Delon & Dalcan,
Von Mondo,
Bluetip,
Hashim,
Marshall Jefferson,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Urselle,
Neu!,
Sight & Sound,
Q65,
10cc,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Michelle Simonal,
Trumans Water,
Grauzone,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Flipper,
DJ Sneak,
Letta Mbulu,
Al Stewart,
Joyce Sims,
EPMD,
The Techniques,
Dorothy Ashby,
Country Teasers,
Joey Negro,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Sun City Girls,
Malaria!,
8 Eyed Spy,
Sun Ra,
Barclay James Harvest,
Radiopuhelimet,
Simply Red,
Masters at Work,
Unrelated Segments,
Mr. Review,
Frankie Knuckles,
Duran Duran,
Royal Trux,
Procol Harum,
The Cramps,
Swell Maps,
Fad Gadget,
The Leaves,
Scientists,
Intrusion,
CMW,
Isaac Hayes,
Blossom Toes, Blossom Toes, Blossom Toes, Blossom Toes.
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.