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 Hungary and from Bologna.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Stereo Dub to the techno kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 The Five Americans. All the underground hits.
All Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Freddie Wadling record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Symarip record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
UT,
Black Sheep,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Kinks,
Pole,
Eurythmics,
Barry Ungar,
Rotary Connection,
Bobby Byrd,
Joensuu 1685,
Harmonia,
Camouflage,
Sun City Girls,
Flash Fearless,
Letta Mbulu,
Nick Fraelich,
Rapeman,
New York Dolls,
Severed Heads,
Vladislav Delay,
Mad Mike,
Suicide,
Tim Buckley,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Pantaleimon,
Accadde A,
8 Eyed Spy,
Bobby Womack,
Jesper Dahlback,
Zapp,
Minor Threat,
Schoolly D,
FM Einheit,
Derrick May,
Girls At Our Best!,
Ornette Coleman,
Lungfish,
David McCallum,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Simply Red,
Bob Dylan,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Hot Snakes,
Stockholm Monsters,
Alison Limerick,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Liliput,
D'Angelo,
Nas,
Blancmange,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Gap Band,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Soft Machine,
OOIOO,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Jeff Lynne,
Vainqueur,
Sarah Menescal,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter.
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.