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 Norway and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 Robert Palmer 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 Matthew Halsall to the jazz 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 Ronan. All the underground hits.
All DJ Sneak tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Smog 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lizzy Mercier Descloux record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scrapy,
Oblivians,
Robert Görl,
Model 500,
The Zeros,
Al Stewart,
The United States of America,
ABC,
Bauhaus,
Accadde A,
The Electric Prunes,
Hardrive,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Marine Girls,
The Misunderstood,
Gang Gang Dance,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Shadows of Knight,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Chrome,
Curtis Mayfield,
Brick,
The American Breed,
Danielle Patucci,
Soul Sonic Force,
Stockholm Monsters,
Vladislav Delay,
The Names,
Dead Boys,
Kayak,
Amon Düül II,
Can,
Michelle Simonal,
The Gladiators,
Bobby Sherman,
Yazoo,
Cymande,
The Gap Band,
Jeff Mills,
Swell Maps,
Johnny Clarke,
Popol Vuh,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Sugar Minott,
Amazonics,
Glenn Branca,
Das Ding,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Associates,
The Cure,
Girls At Our Best!,
Quando Quango,
Minny Pops,
Unrelated Segments,
Fela Kuti,
Archie Shepp,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Buzzcocks,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Suburban Knight,
Sonic Youth,
The Fire Engines,
Bobby Byrd, Bobby Byrd, Bobby Byrd, Bobby Byrd.
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.