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 Azerbaijan and from Philadelphia.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 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 Derrick Morgan to the funk 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 Jerry Gold Smith. All the underground hits.
All The Chocolate Watch Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Crime record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Faust,
Cameo,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Jimmy McGriff,
New Order,
Cheater Slicks,
Average White Band,
Dave Gahan,
Pet Shop Boys,
Erykah Badu,
Gerry Rafferty,
Thompson Twins,
The Mojo Men,
D'Angelo,
The Raincoats,
Terry Callier,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Maleditus Sound,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Beau Brummels,
Lungfish,
Gastr Del Sol,
Cluster,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Dark Day,
DNA,
The Seeds,
Tim Buckley,
Soul Sonic Force,
Stockholm Monsters,
Godley & Creme,
The Knickerbockers,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Residents,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Flash Fearless,
Babytalk,
The Offenders,
The Trojans,
The Doobie Brothers,
48th St. Collective,
Blossom Toes,
Motorama,
The Techniques,
Rotary Connection,
Essential Logic,
Camberwell Now,
Liliput,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Dirtbombs,
ABBA,
Sun Ra,
The Busters,
Crooked Eye,
Reuben Wilson,
Tropical Tobacco,
Sound Behaviour,
Slick Rick,
The Victims,
Henry Cow,
Minny Pops,
The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy.
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.