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 Syria and from New York.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Harmonia to the crunk 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 Scion. All the underground hits.
All AZ tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sugar Minott record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dual Sessions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ultimate Spinach,
Cybotron,
In Retrospect,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Martian,
The Blackbyrds,
Audionom,
Moebius,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Wake,
Albert Ayler,
The Human League,
Bush Tetras,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Lou Reed,
Crooked Eye,
Sandy B,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Hashim,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Stereo Dub,
Dorothy Ashby,
Howard Jones,
Eve St. Jones,
Man Parrish,
Johnny Clarke,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
JFA,
Kurtis Blow,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Jacob Miller,
The Count Five,
Malaria!,
Bobby Byrd,
Ossler,
Judy Mowatt,
Echospace,
Pantaleimon,
The Young Rascals,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Rites of Spring,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Television,
Peter & Gordon,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Boz Scaggs,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Minutemen,
Inner City,
Amon Düül II,
Pharoah Sanders,
Laurel Aitken,
Patti Smith,
10cc,
the Fania All-Stars,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Al Stewart,
Derrick Morgan,
Con Funk Shun,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Wings, Wings, Wings, Wings.
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.