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 Peru and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Aswad to the jazz 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 Bad Manners. All the underground hits.
All The Real Kids tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Todd Rundgren 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aloha Tigers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Arthur Verocai,
Delta 5,
The Evens,
Malaria!,
Josef K,
Outsiders,
Eden Ahbez,
Sarah Menescal,
The Grass Roots,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Selecter,
Funkadelic,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Ohio Players,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
New Age Steppers,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Smog,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Move,
The Moleskins,
Connie Case,
Crash Course in Science,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Misunderstood,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Massinfluence,
James White and The Blacks,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Sonics,
Agitation Free,
Suburban Knight,
Toni Rubio,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Fat Boys,
Ponytail,
KRS-One,
Eyeless In Gaza,
JFA,
China Crisis,
Animal Collective,
Skarface,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Pere Ubu,
Main Source,
Minny Pops,
Wire,
Negative Approach,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Radiopuhelimet,
Black Sheep,
Idris Muhammad,
Eli Mardock,
Neil Young,
Tomorrow,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Nick Fraelich,
Whodini,
Guru Guru,
Terrestrial Tones,
Moebius,
Lee Hazlewood, Lee Hazlewood, Lee Hazlewood, Lee Hazlewood.
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.