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 Brazil and from Tokyo.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Bologna.
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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Soft Machine to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Hoover. All the underground hits.
All Anakelly tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ituana 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Guru Guru record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fluxion,
The Angels of Light,
Ohio Players,
Hasil Adkins,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Busters,
ABBA,
Reagan Youth,
Minny Pops,
Cecil Taylor,
The Cure,
Howard Jones,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Martian,
Isaac Hayes,
The Neon Judgement,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Divine Comedy,
Ossler,
Gastr Del Sol,
JFA,
Roxette,
Crispy Ambulance,
Marshall Jefferson,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Doobie Brothers,
Japan,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Avey Tare,
Jacob Miller,
Bronski Beat,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
F. McDonald,
Eden Ahbez,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Seeds,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Panda Bear,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
New Age Steppers,
Pole,
Das Ding,
Country Teasers,
the Bar-Kays,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Kayak,
Index,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Charles Mingus,
The Doors,
The Misunderstood,
Easy Going,
Soul Sonic Force,
Section 25,
Kas Product,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Fuzztones,
Boz Scaggs,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs, Notorious Big And Bone Thugs, Notorious Big And Bone Thugs, Notorious Big And Bone Thugs.
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.