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 Yemen and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Slave to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Aloha Tigers. All the underground hits.
All Main Source tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kings Of Tomorrow 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 '80s.
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 The Shadows of Knight record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Mars,
Terry Callier,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Television,
Soulsonic Force,
Brick,
The Associates,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Eden Ahbez,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Barrington Levy,
Sex Pistols,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Move,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Pylon,
The Slits,
Fluxion,
Althea and Donna,
David Bowie,
Unwound,
Janne Schatter,
Cameo,
Tubeway Army,
Delta 5,
Laurel Aitken,
Theoretical Girls,
KRS-One,
Lou Christie,
Echospace,
Bang On A Can,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Youth Brigade,
a-ha,
Girls At Our Best!,
John Cale,
Howard Jones,
The Fugs,
Arcadia,
The Vogues,
Dawn Penn,
Niagra,
Erasure,
Pole,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Count Five,
Faraquet,
The Cure,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
David Axelrod,
Vainqueur,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Japan,
UT,
Barclay James Harvest,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Cymande,
The Skatalites,
DJ Style, DJ Style, DJ Style, DJ Style.
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.