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 Libya and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Parry Music to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Sparks. All the underground hits.
All Yaz tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Von Mondo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Carl Craig record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ornette Coleman,
Subhumans,
Grey Daturas,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Don Cherry,
Bob Dylan,
The Slits,
E-Dancer,
Faraquet,
Symarip,
Kayak,
The Names,
The Birthday Party,
Stetsasonic,
The Searchers,
Terry Callier,
Sound Behaviour,
Curtis Mayfield,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Simply Red,
One Last Wish,
Max Romeo,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Gabor Szabo,
Eden Ahbez,
ABC,
The Cure,
The J.B.'s,
Crispy Ambulance,
Rod Modell,
Suburban Knight,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Ice-T,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Bootsy Collins,
D'Angelo,
New Order,
Andrew Hill,
Ten City,
David Axelrod,
The Walker Brothers,
Traffic Nightmare,
Eurythmics,
The Velvet Underground,
Theoretical Girls,
Infiniti,
Joe Finger,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Monks,
Roger Hodgson,
Metal Thangz,
Roxy Music,
the Soft Cell,
Lou Reed,
Newcleus,
Girls At Our Best!,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
L. Decosne,
The Stooges,
Tears for Fears,
Mad Mike,
The Angels of Light, The Angels of Light, The Angels of Light, The Angels of Light.
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.