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 Haiti and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 Donald Fagen 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 Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon 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 Eli Mardock. All the underground hits.
All The Electric Prunes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gang Green 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 snare and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Grandmaster Flash,
Goldenarms,
Jawbox,
Rotary Connection,
Pharoah Sanders,
Au Pairs,
Barrington Levy,
Parry Music,
Excepter,
The Dead C,
Lightning Bolt,
kango's stein massive,
Thee Headcoats,
The Cramps,
Jacob Miller,
Monolake,
Chrome,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Underground Resistance,
Skriet,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Khruangbin,
Cal Tjader,
The Wake,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Marmalade,
Eddi Front,
Flash Fearless,
The Index,
Mission of Burma,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Ituana,
Banda Bassotti,
the Association,
Procol Harum,
Deadbeat,
Negative Approach,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Darondo,
Mark Hollis,
The Gladiators,
Prince Buster,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Sex Pistols,
Spoonie Gee,
The Music Machine,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Rapeman,
Peter & Gordon,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Young Rascals,
Wolf Eyes,
James White and The Blacks,
Kenny Larkin,
Man Eating Sloth,
Glenn Branca,
Unwound,
The Knickerbockers,
Audionom,
Lou Reed,
U.S. Maple,
Barbara Tucker,
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You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
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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.