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 Kazakhstan and from Mumbai.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 oboe 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 Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 to the disco 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 The Techniques. All the underground hits.
All Chris & Cosey tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ultramagnetic MC's 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Laurel Aitken,
The Standells,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Sound Behaviour,
Visage,
Jesper Dahlback,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Sonic Youth,
the Association,
Rosa Yemen,
Siglo XX,
Amazonics,
Dark Day,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Stereo Dub,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Junior Murvin,
Sandy B,
The Fortunes,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
H. Thieme,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Knickerbockers,
Lakeside,
This Heat,
Spandau Ballet,
Procol Harum,
PIL,
Surgeon,
Subhumans,
Grey Daturas,
June Days,
Tommy Roe,
Dorothy Ashby,
Scrapy,
Section 25,
Oblivians,
Scott Walker,
the Germs,
Brand Nubian,
Aural Exciters,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
In Retrospect,
Spoonie Gee,
Robert Wyatt,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Mo-Dettes,
Don Cherry,
Nirvana,
Swell Maps,
Babytalk,
Joyce Sims,
Rapeman,
The Smiths,
Blancmange,
Monks,
Essential Logic,
Fear,
James White and The Blacks,
Grandmaster Flash,
Erasure,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Dirtbombs,
The Star Department, The Star Department, The Star Department, The Star Department.
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.