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 Portugal and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Piero Umiliani. All the underground hits.
All Surgeon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Normal record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soulsonic Force record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
John Coltrane,
Nas,
The Durutti Column,
PIL,
Kevin Saunderson,
R.M.O.,
Intrusion,
Jacob Miller,
Gabor Szabo,
Leonard Cohen,
Lalo Schifrin,
Easy Going,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Marshall Jefferson,
Lyres,
cv313,
Tim Buckley,
Model 500,
Niagra,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Slits,
Archie Shepp,
X-102,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Fugs,
Lalann,
Josef K,
Gang Starr,
Average White Band,
Livin' Joy,
Max Romeo,
Charles Mingus,
Idris Muhammad,
Spoonie Gee,
Absolute Body Control,
Section 25,
A Certain Ratio,
Reuben Wilson,
Joensuu 1685,
Todd Terry,
Lou Reed,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Brothers Johnson,
Brass Construction,
Hardrive,
Pierre Henry,
Aswad,
Infiniti,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Yellowson,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Delon & Dalcan,
Jandek,
Soul II Soul,
Jeff Mills,
Neil Young,
Amon Düül,
Barry Ungar,
Alton Ellis,
Dual Sessions,
Fatback Band,
Make Up,
X-101, X-101, X-101, X-101.
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.