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 Honduras and from Johannesburg.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 Michael McDonald 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 Todd Terry to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Roxette. All the underground hits.
All Ken Boothe tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Suburban Knight 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scott Walker + Sunn O))) record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Josef K,
The Monochrome Set,
Banda Bassotti,
Crooked Eye,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Charles Mingus,
The Skatalites,
Scientists,
Althea and Donna,
Alphaville,
Chris Corsano,
the Swans,
Underground Resistance,
Eric B and Rakim,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Gerry Rafferty,
Section 25,
The Gladiators,
Bobby Sherman,
Colin Newman,
The Litter,
Dual Sessions,
The Wake,
The Fuzztones,
Porter Ricks,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
D'Angelo,
Faust,
Easy Going,
The Motions,
Reuben Wilson,
Gastr Del Sol,
Symarip,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Sun City Girls,
The Busters,
Pantytec,
Rakim,
Khruangbin,
Black Flag,
Brand Nubian,
Pulsallama,
Rapeman,
Brothers Johnson,
Jeru the Damaja,
Nico,
The Velvet Underground,
The Cramps,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Doobie Brothers,
Laurel Aitken,
Ohio Players,
Young Marble Giants,
Average White Band,
Lungfish,
Blake Baxter,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Soulsonic Force,
Sight & Sound, Sight & Sound, Sight & Sound, Sight & Sound.
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.