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 Sweden and from Copenhagen.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Glasgow.
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 linndrum 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 Unrelated Segments to the rap kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Yellowson. All the underground hits.
All Radiohead tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rod Modell 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Idris Muhammad record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Steve Hackett,
Arab on Radar,
Johnny Osbourne,
Gabor Szabo,
Juan Atkins,
Q65,
The Sound,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Eurythmics,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
T. Rex,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Swell Maps,
Radio Birdman,
Youth Brigade,
Yusef Lateef,
Organ,
Brass Construction,
The Fire Engines,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Matthew Halsall,
The Standells,
Goldenarms,
Drexciya,
Pere Ubu,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Blackbyrds,
Kayak,
Sixth Finger,
Laurel Aitken,
Young Marble Giants,
Spoonie Gee,
Fatback Band,
Aloha Tigers,
Silicon Teens,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Eric B and Rakim,
X-101,
Charles Mingus,
The American Breed,
KRS-One,
Dennis Brown,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Kool Moe Dee,
Terry Callier,
Tres Demented,
Alison Limerick,
Erykah Badu,
Country Joe & The Fish,
John Coltrane,
Electric Prunes,
The Leaves,
U.S. Maple,
Lightning Bolt,
Lou Reed,
The Cowsills,
Whodini,
Erasure,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Darondo,
Mark Hollis,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud.
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.