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 Madagascar and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 Michael McDonald 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 Gian Franco Pienzio to the punk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson. All the underground hits.
All The Mojo Men tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Michelle Simonal record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
One Last Wish,
Lalo Schifrin,
Blake Baxter,
Nik Kershaw,
Althea and Donna,
kango's stein massive,
The Slackers,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
James Chance & The Contortions,
La Düsseldorf,
Henry Cow,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Last Poets,
The Busters,
Parry Music,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Bronski Beat,
The Mojo Men,
Man Eating Sloth,
Yaz,
Vainqueur,
Lalann,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Warsaw,
Eve St. Jones,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Easy Going,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Janne Schatter,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Country Teasers,
Tommy Roe,
Stiv Bators,
Pantaleimon,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Kenny Larkin,
Khruangbin,
New Age Steppers,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Doors,
Unrelated Segments,
Cheater Slicks,
The Leaves,
Masters at Work,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Pop Group,
The Litter,
Average White Band,
Agent Orange,
Ultimate Spinach,
Symarip,
Interpol,
Aswad,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
the Swans,
The Grass Roots,
Spoonie Gee,
The Evens,
Moebius,
The Wake,
Kurtis Blow,
Desert Stars,
The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy.
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.