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 Tunisia and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Lebanon Hanover to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Scott Walker + Sunn O))). All the underground hits.
All Loose Ends tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marvin Gaye record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gerry Rafferty record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Todd Terry,
Reuben Wilson,
David McCallum,
Dennis Brown,
Iggy Pop,
The Raincoats,
Second Layer,
Rekid,
Rosa Yemen,
Soul II Soul,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Invisible,
Sonny Sharrock,
Eden Ahbez,
James White and The Blacks,
The Pretty Things,
Pole,
Michelle Simonal,
The Birthday Party,
Flash Fearless,
Basic Channel,
Groovy Waters,
Zapp,
Sun City Girls,
Lucky Dragons,
E-Dancer,
Harpers Bizarre,
Technova,
Max Romeo,
The Fortunes,
ABC,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Chrome,
Henry Cow,
Jesper Dahlback,
Public Image Ltd.,
Byron Stingily,
Pharoah Sanders,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Isaac Hayes,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Monochrome Set,
Cameo,
Ituana,
Roxette,
LL Cool J,
Y Pants,
cv313,
Parry Music,
Radiohead,
Fatback Band,
Soft Cell,
The Moleskins,
Clear Light,
Ornette Coleman,
Yaz,
The Leaves,
Gong,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Laurel Aitken, Laurel Aitken, Laurel Aitken, Laurel Aitken.
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.