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 Saudi Arabia and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic 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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 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 Television Personalities to the jazz 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 Kool Moe Dee. All the underground hits.
All cv313 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scrapy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delon & Dalcan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Delon & Dalcan,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Curtis Mayfield,
Skarface,
Jeff Mills,
The Happenings,
Negative Approach,
Loose Ends,
The Offenders,
X-101,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Flash Fearless,
Ultimate Spinach,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Godley & Creme,
Arthur Verocai,
Carl Craig,
Arcadia,
Make Up,
FM Einheit,
Nico,
Fear,
Lalo Schifrin,
Ponytail,
Blake Baxter,
Marvin Gaye,
Young Marble Giants,
The Divine Comedy,
Excepter,
The Martian,
8 Eyed Spy,
Black Sheep,
Lou Reed,
Duran Duran,
Eurythmics,
D'Angelo,
Girls At Our Best!,
Crispy Ambulance,
Ultravox,
Ohio Players,
The Sound,
Magma,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Con Funk Shun,
Idris Muhammad,
The Raincoats,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Heaven 17,
X-Ray Spex,
Fatback Band,
Rosa Yemen,
The Cowsills,
The Blackbyrds,
Brick,
Television Personalities,
Country Teasers,
Camberwell Now,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Masters at Work,
The Searchers,
The Electric Prunes, The Electric Prunes, The Electric Prunes, The Electric Prunes.
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.