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 Croatia and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
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 Jerry's Kids to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Skarface. All the underground hits.
All Yaz tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gregory Isaacs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
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 Ituana record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Prince Buster,
The Velvet Underground,
Lakeside,
Matthew Bourne,
Eden Ahbez,
These Immortal Souls,
Drive Like Jehu,
Pole,
The Modern Lovers,
In Retrospect,
Joensuu 1685,
Yaz,
Absolute Body Control,
Lower 48,
Pet Shop Boys,
Hasil Adkins,
Country Teasers,
Flash Fearless,
Niagra,
Wings,
David Bowie,
Babytalk,
Stereo Dub,
Sex Pistols,
Gerry Rafferty,
Banda Bassotti,
The Mojo Men,
Pharoah Sanders,
Ultravox,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Fire Engines,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Los Fastidios,
Gang of Four,
Parry Music,
Qualms,
The Slackers,
Arcadia,
Hashim,
Animal Collective,
X-Ray Spex,
Shuggie Otis,
Reuben Wilson,
Blake Baxter,
Roxy Music,
Yusef Lateef,
Isaac Hayes,
Ten City,
The J.B.'s,
Section 25,
Sugar Minott,
Suicide,
X-101,
The Cramps,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Knickerbockers,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Bizarre Inc.,
Von Mondo,
Ludus,
Gabor Szabo,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Mandrill, Mandrill, Mandrill, Mandrill.
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.