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 Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Delhi.
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 oboe 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 Derrick Morgan to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Bush Tetras. All the underground hits.
All The Pretty Things tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grey Daturas 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Frankie Knuckles record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Offenders,
Derrick May,
Saccharine Trust,
Janne Schatter,
These Immortal Souls,
Funkadelic,
Pierre Henry,
Soul Sonic Force,
Byron Stingily,
Moss Icon,
Fluxion,
DJ Style,
Shoche,
The Smiths,
Wally Richardson,
Royal Trux,
T. Rex,
Tomorrow,
Mark Hollis,
Silicon Teens,
Ohio Players,
Sandy B,
Lalann,
Laurel Aitken,
Panda Bear,
Roy Ayers,
Ossler,
Kerrie Biddell,
Donny Hathaway,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Flamin' Groovies,
Glambeats Corp.,
Animal Collective,
The J.B.'s,
Grandmaster Flash,
the Germs,
Eric B and Rakim,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Sonny Sharrock,
Soft Machine,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Suburban Knight,
Accadde A,
Bob Dylan,
Kaleidoscope,
Sister Nancy,
Lucky Dragons,
Main Source,
Gang Starr,
Oneida,
Throbbing Gristle,
Sun City Girls,
Moby Grape,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Associates,
Bobby Byrd,
Jimmy McGriff,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Alarm Clocks,
Jawbox,
Symarip,
Thompson Twins,
John Holt,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.