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 Uganda and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in 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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Grandmaster Flash to the punk 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 Little Man. All the underground hits.
All Essential Logic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Smog 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mad Mike,
Yusef Lateef,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Subhumans,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Camberwell Now,
Sound Behaviour,
Glambeats Corp.,
Loose Ends,
Little Man,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Darondo,
Rotary Connection,
Black Sheep,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Bill Wells,
Dead Boys,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Peter & Gordon,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Ludus,
The Golliwogs,
These Immortal Souls,
Traffic Nightmare,
Vladislav Delay,
New York Dolls,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Scan 7,
Janne Schatter,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Hoover,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Doobie Brothers,
Liliput,
Blake Baxter,
Young Marble Giants,
Black Pus,
Roger Hodgson,
Dave Gahan,
Gang Green,
Shuggie Otis,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Suicide,
Sparks,
Scratch Acid,
Harmonia,
Tim Buckley,
Jeru the Damaja,
X-Ray Spex,
The Litter,
Niagra,
The Moody Blues,
Fad Gadget,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Q and Not U,
R.M.O.,
Radiopuhelimet,
Royal Trux,
Bill Near,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Bang On A Can, Bang On A Can, Bang On A Can, Bang On A Can.
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.