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 Lesotho and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 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 Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 MDC. All the underground hits.
All Young Marble Giants tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Stooges record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wings,
Easy Going,
Joey Negro,
Donald Byrd,
Joe Smooth,
Marshall Jefferson,
Fela Kuti,
Gerry Rafferty,
Nirvana,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Count Five,
Steve Hackett,
Peter and Kerry,
Pulsallama,
Joe Finger,
Aural Exciters,
Khruangbin,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Aaron Thompson,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Fatback Band,
Peter & Gordon,
EPMD,
Mo-Dettes,
Ohio Players,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Fifty Foot Hose,
A Certain Ratio,
Joensuu 1685,
Crispy Ambulance,
Eddi Front,
Idris Muhammad,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Sonics,
Sexual Harrassment,
Lucky Dragons,
The Associates,
Negative Approach,
Suburban Knight,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Tremeloes,
Ultimate Spinach,
Arthur Verocai,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Victims,
Quando Quango,
Mad Mike,
Terrestrial Tones,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Lightning Bolt,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Stooges,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Litter,
Gang of Four,
Bush Tetras,
Gil Scott Heron,
David Axelrod,
Cameo,
Marmalade,
The Dave Clark Five,
E-Dancer, E-Dancer, E-Dancer, E-Dancer.
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.