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 Egypt and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 June Days to the crunk 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 Cecil Taylor. All the underground hits.
All ABC tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ultravox record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 güiro and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amon Düül record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Gories,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
X-Ray Spex,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Monochrome Set,
Shoche,
Rotary Connection,
Judy Mowatt,
Yazoo,
the Association,
These Immortal Souls,
Lightning Bolt,
Tim Buckley,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Silicon Teens,
Flash Fearless,
Leonard Cohen,
Scrapy,
The Zeros,
Unwound,
JFA,
Sixth Finger,
8 Eyed Spy,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Sonics,
Country Teasers,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Peter & Gordon,
Wally Richardson,
Young Marble Giants,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Matthew Halsall,
Infiniti,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Pharoah Sanders,
Barry Ungar,
Dark Day,
Barclay James Harvest,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Techniques,
Moby Grape,
CMW,
U.S. Maple,
Derrick May,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Donny Hathaway,
Ultimate Spinach,
Mary Jane Girls,
Alice Coltrane,
Sonny Sharrock,
Neil Young,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Smiths,
Roger Hodgson,
Roy Ayers,
Cameo,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Howard Jones,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
kango's stein massive,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.