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 Dominica and from Salvador.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 synthesizer 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 Dawn Penn to the jazz 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 The Jesus and Mary Chain. All the underground hits.
All Nation of Ulysses tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gories 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Flipper record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Curtis Mayfield,
Unrelated Segments,
David Bowie,
Scion,
Eyeless In Gaza,
John Holt,
Popol Vuh,
Alison Limerick,
Lakeside,
Sonic Youth,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Cheater Slicks,
Soulsonic Force,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Walker Brothers,
Radiopuhelimet,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Grauzone,
Animal Collective,
Al Stewart,
Carl Craig,
Ronan,
The Buckinghams,
The American Breed,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Velvet Underground,
Scrapy,
Country Teasers,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Morten Harket,
Graham Central Station,
Peter and Kerry,
The Fire Engines,
Eric Copeland,
The Zeros,
The Electric Prunes,
The Monks,
Fugazi,
Fad Gadget,
Mad Mike,
The Happenings,
The Pop Group,
Infiniti,
Das Ding,
Urselle,
Ultimate Spinach,
Lightning Bolt,
Talk Talk,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Matthew Bourne,
Matthew Halsall,
Throbbing Gristle,
Yusef Lateef,
48th St. Collective,
Angry Samoans,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Visage,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Crime,
John Foxx,
T. Rex,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.