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 Ethiopia and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Slick Rick to the funk 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 Judy Mowatt. All the underground hits.
All Eve St. Jones tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sam Rivers 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Saccharine Trust record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Max Romeo,
Ossler,
Talk Talk,
Infiniti,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Gong,
Brand Nubian,
Derrick Morgan,
Roxy Music,
Johnny Clarke,
Animal Collective,
The Knickerbockers,
Dave Gahan,
Hardrive,
Pantytec,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Underground Resistance,
Shuggie Otis,
Hasil Adkins,
Model 500,
Hot Snakes,
Neil Young,
Kas Product,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Litter,
Tubeway Army,
Trumans Water,
Brass Construction,
Soul II Soul,
MC5,
The Kinks,
FM Einheit,
Roy Ayers,
The Standells,
Cecil Taylor,
CMW,
The Offenders,
Electric Prunes,
Massinfluence,
Bob Dylan,
Parry Music,
Sugar Minott,
Bush Tetras,
Depeche Mode,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Seeds,
OOIOO,
Pagans,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Average White Band,
Thee Headcoats,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Joe Finger,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Maleditus Sound,
Echospace,
Sun Ra,
The Stooges,
Brothers Johnson,
Arthur Verocai,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron.
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.