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 San Marino and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 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 Guru Guru to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Amon Düül. All the underground hits.
All The Wake tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ash Ra Tempel 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Saccharine Trust record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Livin' Joy,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Alice Coltrane,
The Stooges,
Crime,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Audionom,
Eden Ahbez,
Matthew Halsall,
The Blackbyrds,
Massinfluence,
Mr. Review,
Rakim,
OOIOO,
Adolescents,
Quantec,
Moss Icon,
Judy Mowatt,
Nils Olav,
Johnny Osbourne,
Soul Sonic Force,
Oblivians,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Angels of Light,
KRS-One,
The United States of America,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Babytalk,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Associates,
Girls At Our Best!,
Smog,
The Fire Engines,
Kenny Larkin,
Mad Mike,
Davy DMX,
Joensuu 1685,
the Association,
Alphaville,
The Fugs,
Fear,
Laurel Aitken,
Vladislav Delay,
Iggy Pop,
Spoonie Gee,
Bill Near,
Maurizio,
Crash Course in Science,
Hashim,
the Fania All-Stars,
Roy Ayers,
The Divine Comedy,
Country Teasers,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Gregory Isaacs,
Organ,
Robert Wyatt,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Leaves,
Subhumans,
Gastr Del Sol,
Jacques Brel,
Wolf Eyes, Wolf Eyes, Wolf Eyes, Wolf Eyes.
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.