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 Senegal and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 808 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 Lou Reed & Metallica to the rap kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Fela Kuti. All the underground hits.
All Aswad tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ludus 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Chrome record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sunsets and Hearts,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Fugs,
Boredoms,
Prince Buster,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Thee Headcoats,
Shuggie Otis,
Angry Samoans,
Monks,
Soul II Soul,
Black Sheep,
June of 44,
Ultravox,
Kaleidoscope,
Lightning Bolt,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Big Daddy Kane,
Marmalade,
Bluetip,
Tommy Roe,
The Count Five,
a-ha,
Trumans Water,
Lyres,
Rufus Thomas,
Tim Buckley,
Davy DMX,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Essential Logic,
Grandmaster Flash,
Oneida,
Lindisfarne,
The Evens,
The Pretty Things,
Silicon Teens,
Mantronix,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Rakim,
Stiv Bators,
Dawn Penn,
The Five Americans,
These Immortal Souls,
Hashim,
Kayak,
Deakin,
Cybotron,
The Associates,
Desert Stars,
Flipper,
Half Japanese,
Cameo,
Robert Wyatt,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Shadows of Knight,
Soft Machine, Soft Machine, Soft Machine, Soft Machine.
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.