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 Jordan and from Toronto.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 sitar 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 Ajijia Myrayebe to the grime 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 Soul II Soul. All the underground hits.
All Fluxion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Avey Tare record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Moleskins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Easy Going,
Jeru the Damaja,
Absolute Body Control,
Trumans Water,
T. Rex,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
June of 44,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Magma,
In Retrospect,
The Walker Brothers,
The Happenings,
Interpol,
Subhumans,
The Kinks,
Black Sheep,
ABBA,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Skatalites,
Tomorrow,
Franke,
The Evens,
Nils Olav,
Stiv Bators,
Jeff Lynne,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Ludus,
Essential Logic,
Agent Orange,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Blues Magoos,
Desert Stars,
Jimmy McGriff,
Maleditus Sound,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Selecter,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Stereo Dub,
Glenn Branca,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Invisible,
Ohio Players,
Radiopuhelimet,
Gang Green,
Amon Düül II,
Isaac Hayes,
Grauzone,
Hardrive,
Adolescents,
Wire,
Lee Hazlewood,
the Soft Cell,
Ultimate Spinach,
Cymande,
Brothers Johnson,
Eric Copeland,
Dave Gahan,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Radiohead,
Moss Icon,
James Chance & The Contortions,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.