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 Zambia and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 Nile Rodgers 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 Ash Ra Tempel to the rap 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 New York Dolls. All the underground hits.
All Robert Hood tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Young Rascals 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Stetsasonic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Infiniti,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Sight & Sound,
Rotary Connection,
Surgeon,
the Soft Cell,
Gong,
The Fire Engines,
Sound Behaviour,
The Motions,
Youth Brigade,
Gang of Four,
The Standells,
Eurythmics,
Chrome,
Rakim,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Pylon,
Panda Bear,
Anthony Braxton,
Bob Dylan,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Buckinghams,
Drexciya,
Godley & Creme,
Sällskapet,
Prince Buster,
Faraquet,
Wings,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Pantaleimon,
Idris Muhammad,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Grass Roots,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Max Romeo,
Ponytail,
Ituana,
Cecil Taylor,
Lee Hazlewood,
Stockholm Monsters,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Oneida,
Connie Case,
Altered Images,
Eric Dolphy,
The Gun Club,
Tropical Tobacco,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Bobby Byrd,
The United States of America,
The Dead C,
Tears for Fears,
Section 25,
Hasil Adkins,
Silicon Teens,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
OOIOO,
Tubeway Army,
Mark Hollis,
Masters at Work,
Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest.
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.