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 Kiribati and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 chamberlin 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 Manfred Mann's Earth Band to the grunge kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 10cc. All the underground hits.
All The Gories tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Curtis Mayfield record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rosa Yemen record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Brothers Johnson,
Arab on Radar,
Kerri Chandler,
Jeru the Damaja,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Kaleidoscope,
The Wake,
Hardrive,
The Evens,
Erykah Badu,
Newcleus,
Hashim,
Tom Boy,
Index,
The Golliwogs,
Mandrill,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Procol Harum,
Eve St. Jones,
Bobby Womack,
Pharoah Sanders,
Piero Umiliani,
Girls At Our Best!,
Dennis Brown,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Busters,
Eddi Front,
Laurel Aitken,
Qualms,
The Real Kids,
Cecil Taylor,
These Immortal Souls,
Mantronix,
Ronnie Foster,
Drive Like Jehu,
Peter and Kerry,
Fela Kuti,
Ultravox,
LL Cool J,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Peter & Gordon,
Unwound,
Gabor Szabo,
Eli Mardock,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Henry Cow,
Warren Ellis,
Susan Cadogan,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Jawbox,
Suburban Knight,
The Dave Clark Five,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Fear,
The Electric Prunes,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
cv313,
Sugar Minott,
Scan 7,
The Grass Roots,
Outsiders,
X-102, X-102, X-102, X-102.
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.