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 Ukraine and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 Terry Callier to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Zeros. All the underground hits.
All Rakim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobbi Humphrey record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 synthesizer and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jacob Miller,
Symarip,
Agitation Free,
Siglo XX,
Alphaville,
Clear Light,
Boz Scaggs,
Skaos,
Eurythmics,
Derrick Morgan,
Sugar Minott,
Patti Smith,
Gerry Rafferty,
Arthur Verocai,
Blossom Toes,
Robert Görl,
Warsaw,
Moebius,
Massinfluence,
The Monochrome Set,
Tommy Roe,
Rufus Thomas,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Alton Ellis,
Brick,
Johnny Clarke,
Robert Wyatt,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Sun City Girls,
Con Funk Shun,
Junior Murvin,
The United States of America,
Gregory Isaacs,
Royal Trux,
Deadbeat,
Aswad,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Cheater Slicks,
The Leaves,
Smog,
Black Bananas,
Laurel Aitken,
Basic Channel,
Monolake,
Michelle Simonal,
Faust,
The Sonics,
Radio Birdman,
The Doobie Brothers,
Suicide,
Peter and Kerry,
Jimmy McGriff,
Reagan Youth,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Gang Green,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Supertramp,
Skarface,
Scion,
kango's stein massive,
Janne Schatter,
Pantaleimon,
L. Decosne, L. Decosne, L. Decosne, L. Decosne.
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.