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 France and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Saccharine Trust to the rap 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 Eyeless In Gaza. All the underground hits.
All Groovy Waters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jeru the Damaja record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 a 808 and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a a-ha record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Boogie Down Productions,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Ohio Players,
Niagra,
Suburban Knight,
Howard Jones,
Negative Approach,
Dennis Brown,
Main Source,
Peter & Gordon,
Index,
ABBA,
Skarface,
Metal Thangz,
Camouflage,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Buckinghams,
Charles Mingus,
The Mojo Men,
Pagans,
Moebius,
John Coltrane,
Animal Collective,
AZ,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Yaz,
Supertramp,
The Birthday Party,
Minutemen,
Shoche,
8 Eyed Spy,
Parry Music,
Essential Logic,
Sällskapet,
Technova,
Y Pants,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Lalo Schifrin,
Janne Schatter,
R.M.O.,
The Gun Club,
The Fortunes,
Spoonie Gee,
Bizarre Inc.,
Ornette Coleman,
Lungfish,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Jeff Mills,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Yazoo,
Bad Manners,
Lebanon Hanover,
Nik Kershaw,
The Red Krayola,
Bauhaus,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Josef K,
Traffic Nightmare,
Crash Course in Science,
Moss Icon,
Scrapy,
Derrick May,
The Blackbyrds, The Blackbyrds, The Blackbyrds, The Blackbyrds.
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.