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 Serbia and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 marimba 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 Bobby Womack 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 Lou Reed & John Cale. All the underground hits.
All Leonard Cohen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Human League 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Chris & Cosey record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Frankie Knuckles,
Todd Terry,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Fad Gadget,
Masters at Work,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Japan,
Mandrill,
The Alarm Clocks,
Outsiders,
Charles Mingus,
The Walker Brothers,
The United States of America,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Cheater Slicks,
Kerrie Biddell,
Thee Headcoats,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Lightning Bolt,
Grauzone,
Television,
The Offenders,
Freddie Wadling,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Vainqueur,
Johnny Clarke,
Brick,
R.M.O.,
Connie Case,
the Normal,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Morten Harket,
Main Source,
Nirvana,
David Axelrod,
Quantec,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
kango's stein massive,
U.S. Maple,
Leonard Cohen,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Parry Music,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Gichy Dan,
The Tremeloes,
Khruangbin,
Warsaw,
Barclay James Harvest,
the Fania All-Stars,
Little Man,
Anakelly,
The Gap Band,
Mark Hollis,
Bobby Byrd,
Man Parrish,
AZ,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Stockholm Monsters,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions.
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.