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 Egypt and from Salvador.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 harpsichord 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 the Association to the techno 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 Idris Muhammad. All the underground hits.
All Jerry Gold Smith tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Mummies 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 spring reverb and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lakeside record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Iggy Pop,
Lucky Dragons,
The Happenings,
Rotary Connection,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Albert Ayler,
Grandmaster Flash,
Anakelly,
Kool Moe Dee,
Pantytec,
Aural Exciters,
The Associates,
The Gories,
The Real Kids,
Bluetip,
The Moody Blues,
Can,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Kenny Larkin,
The Busters,
Blossom Toes,
Pet Shop Boys,
Dual Sessions,
Inner City,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Bang On A Can,
Camberwell Now,
Pantaleimon,
Easy Going,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Ken Boothe,
John Coltrane,
Peter and Kerry,
Marc Almond,
48th St. Collective,
Reagan Youth,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Heaven 17,
Radiopuhelimet,
DJ Style,
Zero Boys,
Letta Mbulu,
Idris Muhammad,
Michelle Simonal,
the Sonics,
Isaac Hayes,
Frankie Knuckles,
Technova,
Gong,
Brothers Johnson,
Eve St. Jones,
Agent Orange,
Fad Gadget,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Soul II Soul,
Index,
The Monochrome Set,
The Doors,
ABBA,
AZ,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.