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 Seychelles and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 marimba 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 Duran Duran to the grime 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 Mark Hollis. All the underground hits.
All Fatback Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Youth Brigade record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Al Stewart record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
JFA,
Lou Reed,
Gastr Del Sol,
Zero Boys,
Reagan Youth,
Skarface,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Ronnie Foster,
James Chance & The Contortions,
This Heat,
Deepchord,
Drexciya,
Sixth Finger,
Donald Byrd,
Hashim,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Stockholm Monsters,
Byron Stingily,
The Sound,
Country Teasers,
Bad Manners,
Jawbox,
Gong,
Skaos,
Terrestrial Tones,
Wolf Eyes,
Steve Hackett,
Suburban Knight,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Quantec,
Stereo Dub,
Jeff Mills,
Cameo,
The Fall,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Jacob Miller,
Marine Girls,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Lightning Bolt,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Anakelly,
Jacques Brel,
Livin' Joy,
Glenn Branca,
Grandmaster Flash,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Golliwogs,
Tubeway Army,
The Neon Judgement,
Harpers Bizarre,
Bobby Sherman,
Groovy Waters,
Gang Green,
Gang of Four,
Eden Ahbez,
Sällskapet,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Ludus,
Trumans Water, Trumans Water, Trumans Water, Trumans Water.
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.