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 Mozambique and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron 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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Delhi.
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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 The Doors to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Mighty Diamonds. All the underground hits.
All Moss Icon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Sonics record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jimmy McGriff record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Erykah Badu,
Alphaville,
Lightning Bolt,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Television Personalities,
Flamin' Groovies,
Lalo Schifrin,
Erasure,
Jacob Miller,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Slackers,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Zeros,
Gong,
Rites of Spring,
Pet Shop Boys,
X-Ray Spex,
David McCallum,
The Litter,
Amon Düül,
Sonny Sharrock,
Arab on Radar,
Section 25,
Siglo XX,
Vainqueur,
AZ,
Junior Murvin,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Wally Richardson,
Lalann,
Freddie Wadling,
Vladislav Delay,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Eli Mardock,
Electric Prunes,
Anakelly,
Archie Shepp,
The Gap Band,
Dave Gahan,
Ludus,
Joy Division,
Main Source,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Marc Almond,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Misunderstood,
OOIOO,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Lungfish,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Organ,
Scan 7,
EPMD,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The United States of America,
Matthew Halsall,
The Mummies,
Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force.
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.