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 Mauritania and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 linndrum 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 Barbara Tucker to the crunk 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 The Moody Blues. All the underground hits.
All Sun Ra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Al Stewart record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
FM Einheit,
Kerri Chandler,
Quando Quango,
Boz Scaggs,
Adolescents,
The Dead C,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Red Krayola,
Nico,
Rotary Connection,
John Cale,
The Electric Prunes,
Pantytec,
Main Source,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Fortunes,
Simply Red,
Wally Richardson,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Cymande,
Bob Dylan,
Slick Rick,
Danielle Patucci,
the Germs,
The Monochrome Set,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
La Düsseldorf,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Gong,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Heaven 17,
Skarface,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Velvet Underground,
Sound Behaviour,
Duran Duran,
The Music Machine,
Fatback Band,
Derrick Morgan,
Goldenarms,
Byron Stingily,
Joe Finger,
Godley & Creme,
Inner City,
Tubeway Army,
Pierre Henry,
Barbara Tucker,
Chris & Cosey,
June of 44,
Anakelly,
Bronski Beat,
Black Bananas,
Electric Prunes,
Interpol,
The Moleskins,
Minutemen,
Alton Ellis,
John Lydon,
Joe Smooth,
Lower 48, Lower 48, Lower 48, Lower 48.
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.