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 Serbia and from Salvador.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Lille.
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 David Bowie 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 DJ Style to the dance 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 Lakeside. All the underground hits.
All MDC tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fatback Band 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Cosmic Jokers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Minutemen,
Todd Rundgren,
Ponytail,
LL Cool J,
E-Dancer,
The Five Americans,
Glambeats Corp.,
Mission of Burma,
Half Japanese,
Model 500,
Danielle Patucci,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Scientists,
Blake Baxter,
Rekid,
La Düsseldorf,
Scion,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Rufus Thomas,
John Holt,
Bill Near,
The Pop Group,
Monolake,
The Blues Magoos,
Aloha Tigers,
Sonic Youth,
Bobby Byrd,
Average White Band,
Gregory Isaacs,
Barbara Tucker,
Bauhaus,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Ohio Players,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Erykah Badu,
The Remains,
The Grass Roots,
Avey Tare,
John Foxx,
Lower 48,
The Kinks,
Warren Ellis,
The Wake,
Freddie Wadling,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Parry Music,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The United States of America,
Deakin,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Tom Boy,
David Axelrod,
Popol Vuh,
Groovy Waters,
Matthew Halsall,
JFA,
Audionom,
Bush Tetras,
Schoolly D,
Eve St. Jones,
One Last Wish, One Last Wish, One Last Wish, One Last Wish.
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.