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 Tunisia and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 clarinet 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 Ultramagnetic MC's to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Quadrant. All the underground hits.
All Sixth Finger tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wasted Youth 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Todd Rundgren,
New Age Steppers,
Reuben Wilson,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Golliwogs,
The Beau Brummels,
John Holt,
Nick Fraelich,
Second Layer,
Dark Day,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Wings,
Leonard Cohen,
John Foxx,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Sparks,
Colin Newman,
The Sonics,
Sound Behaviour,
The Fall,
Peter & Gordon,
Kurtis Blow,
Mission of Burma,
The Black Dice,
The Mojo Men,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Brothers Johnson,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Kevin Saunderson,
Erykah Badu,
The Red Krayola,
The Move,
Average White Band,
The Dave Clark Five,
Blossom Toes,
CMW,
Man Eating Sloth,
T.S.O.L.,
Jimmy McGriff,
Glambeats Corp.,
Flamin' Groovies,
Kerri Chandler,
Can,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Archie Shepp,
Slick Rick,
Peter and Kerry,
Derrick May,
Funky Four + One,
Prince Buster,
Thompson Twins,
Saccharine Trust,
Amon Düül,
kango's stein massive,
DNA,
Angry Samoans,
Gastr Del Sol,
Scion,
Boz Scaggs, Boz Scaggs, Boz Scaggs, Boz Scaggs.
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.