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 Namibia and from Seoul.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 güiro 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 Public Enemy to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Quantec. All the underground hits.
All Black Moon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every X-Ray Spex 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Wally Richardson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Durutti Column,
U.S. Maple,
The Monochrome Set,
Motorama,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Laurel Aitken,
Jesper Dahlback,
Deadbeat,
Brass Construction,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Funky Four + One,
Ultimate Spinach,
China Crisis,
DNA,
Moebius,
Lightning Bolt,
Todd Terry,
Fatback Band,
The Mummies,
Jeff Mills,
LL Cool J,
The Doors,
Bobby Sherman,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Skriet,
Yusef Lateef,
Scientists,
Wings,
Masters at Work,
Derrick Morgan,
In Retrospect,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Ponytail,
Connie Case,
Scott Walker,
Average White Band,
Rosa Yemen,
Erykah Badu,
Eyeless In Gaza,
8 Eyed Spy,
Mary Jane Girls,
Delon & Dalcan,
Kevin Saunderson,
Kas Product,
The Pretty Things,
Pulsallama,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Gil Scott Heron,
Skarface,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Hot Snakes,
Young Marble Giants,
Janne Schatter,
The Doobie Brothers,
Pole,
Royal Trux,
Livin' Joy,
Au Pairs,
John Cale,
Anakelly,
Little Man,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.