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 Qatar and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 organ 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 Gil Scott Heron to the rap 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 Black Sheep. All the underground hits.
All Swell Maps tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eddi Front record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Buckinghams,
A Certain Ratio,
Supertramp,
Cecil Taylor,
Nik Kershaw,
kango's stein massive,
Althea and Donna,
Flipper,
Archie Shepp,
MDC,
Rotary Connection,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Negative Approach,
Royal Trux,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Funkadelic,
Banda Bassotti,
Chrome,
Ronnie Foster,
The Move,
Guru Guru,
Pole,
The Mummies,
Soul II Soul,
The Trojans,
Pulsallama,
Von Mondo,
Yaz,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Goldenarms,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Marmalade,
FM Einheit,
Metal Thangz,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Altered Images,
The Divine Comedy,
Absolute Body Control,
Peter & Gordon,
Barclay James Harvest,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Gichy Dan,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Eurythmics,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Happenings,
Joensuu 1685,
Sun City Girls,
Kevin Saunderson,
Fela Kuti,
Monolake,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Cure,
The Cowsills,
The Blackbyrds,
Joey Negro,
LL Cool J,
PIL,
Jacques Brel,
Severed Heads,
Harpers Bizarre,
Eddi Front,
Thee Headcoats,
Shoche, Shoche, Shoche, Shoche.
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.