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 Oman and from Bologna.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Alison Limerick to the crunk 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 Techniques. All the underground hits.
All Strawberry Alarm Clock tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every KRS-One 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fluxion record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dual Sessions,
Skarface,
Erykah Badu,
Subhumans,
La Düsseldorf,
Ohio Players,
Chrome,
Kerrie Biddell,
Terry Callier,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Walker Brothers,
The Fall,
Bill Near,
Swans,
Marine Girls,
kango's stein massive,
Vainqueur,
Echospace,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Sight & Sound,
Roy Ayers,
The Modern Lovers,
The Music Machine,
Ronnie Foster,
Fela Kuti,
Big Daddy Kane,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Brick,
ABC,
Tomorrow,
Scan 7,
Easy Going,
the Association,
Groovy Waters,
Public Enemy,
Radiohead,
Albert Ayler,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Cheater Slicks,
The Durutti Column,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Joey Negro,
Graham Central Station,
The Mummies,
cv313,
The Associates,
Steve Hackett,
Scott Walker,
Jerry's Kids,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Evens,
Mission of Burma,
Gabor Szabo,
Banda Bassotti,
Mantronix,
Carl Craig,
X-Ray Spex,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Joy Division,
Marmalade,
Grauzone,
The Vogues,
Jeru the Damaja, Jeru the Damaja, Jeru the Damaja, Jeru the Damaja.
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.