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 Panama and from Milan.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 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 Soul II Soul to the disco 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 Cal Tjader. All the underground hits.
All Neil Young tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Schoolly D record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eurythmics record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Con Funk Shun,
Kevin Saunderson,
Joe Finger,
The United States of America,
Zapp,
Fatback Band,
Niagra,
Davy DMX,
Amon Düül II,
Parry Music,
Public Enemy,
The Angels of Light,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Crash Course in Science,
Deepchord,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
the Human League,
Index,
The Young Rascals,
Fela Kuti,
Bluetip,
The Fortunes,
Bob Dylan,
Jerry's Kids,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Susan Cadogan,
Nico,
Marc Almond,
The Flesh Eaters,
Lightning Bolt,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Aural Exciters,
Maurizio,
Jeru the Damaja,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Subhumans,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Scrapy,
Avey Tare,
Scott Walker,
Shuggie Otis,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Lee Hazlewood,
Faust,
Jawbox,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Visage,
A Certain Ratio,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Swans,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Motions,
Delta 5,
Gang Gang Dance,
Little Man,
These Immortal Souls,
Loose Ends,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Remains,
Lungfish, Lungfish, Lungfish, Lungfish.
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.