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 Albania and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 rhodes 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 Scratch Acid to the jazz 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 The Walker Brothers. All the underground hits.
All Von Mondo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Electric Prunes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rhythim Is Rhythim record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Brass Construction,
The Fall,
Hasil Adkins,
Scan 7,
Easy Going,
Fear,
EPMD,
Eddi Front,
KRS-One,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Blancmange,
Cecil Taylor,
Absolute Body Control,
Traffic Nightmare,
Underground Resistance,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Chris Corsano,
Electric Prunes,
John Lydon,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
DJ Style,
Lalann,
Boz Scaggs,
The Angels of Light,
Motorama,
Neu!,
Thee Headcoats,
Mission of Burma,
Alton Ellis,
Animal Collective,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Fuzztones,
F. McDonald,
Dave Gahan,
Ten City,
Morten Harket,
Aswad,
Agent Orange,
Adolescents,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Amon Düül,
Hashim,
Yaz,
The Young Rascals,
Marcia Griffiths,
Godley & Creme,
Jesper Dahlback,
Panda Bear,
Barrington Levy,
Ultimate Spinach,
Bobby Byrd,
Simply Red,
Rakim,
Arcadia,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Kevin Saunderson,
Moss Icon,
Skriet, Skriet, Skriet, Skriet.
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.