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 Jordan and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 harpsichord 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 Fluxion to the rock 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 Anthony Braxton. All the underground hits.
All Peter and Kerry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Niagra record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dennis Brown record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hot Snakes,
Amon Düül II,
Glambeats Corp.,
Bootsy Collins,
Hashim,
Flash Fearless,
KRS-One,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
James Chance & The Contortions,
New Order,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Main Source,
Camberwell Now,
The Selecter,
The Smiths,
The Pop Group,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Blackbyrds,
Jeru the Damaja,
Kurtis Blow,
Bobby Sherman,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Lucky Dragons,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Donald Byrd,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Tremeloes,
D'Angelo,
Black Pus,
Kerrie Biddell,
Pierre Henry,
Blake Baxter,
The Misunderstood,
The Modern Lovers,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Happenings,
Sarah Menescal,
The Move,
Ultimate Spinach,
Brand Nubian,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
K-Klass,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Sun Ra,
Arcadia,
Pantaleimon,
Average White Band,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Sonny Sharrock,
Davy DMX,
Eurythmics,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Dead Boys,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo.
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.