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 Korea North and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Jakarta.
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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Rotary Connection to the punk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 The United States of America. All the underground hits.
All The Move tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Leaves record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 clarinet and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delon & Dalcan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Moebius,
kango's stein massive,
Sun City Girls,
Soul II Soul,
Crime,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Zapp,
Nas,
Clear Light,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Don Cherry,
Buzzcocks,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
D'Angelo,
Cymande,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Skarface,
Hot Snakes,
the Association,
The Residents,
Albert Ayler,
Slick Rick,
Black Sheep,
Camberwell Now,
Dead Boys,
Moby Grape,
Swell Maps,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Boredoms,
Erykah Badu,
Cybotron,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Kerrie Biddell,
Jimmy McGriff,
Anakelly,
Vladislav Delay,
The Divine Comedy,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
H. Thieme,
Bizarre Inc.,
Audionom,
The Motions,
Half Japanese,
Cameo,
The Last Poets,
a-ha,
Laurel Aitken,
Sparks,
The Doobie Brothers,
The American Breed,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Pole,
The Alarm Clocks,
Kurtis Blow,
June of 44,
Andrew Hill,
Unrelated Segments,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Fad Gadget,
Bill Wells, Bill Wells, Bill Wells, Bill Wells.
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.