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 Peru and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Ultimate Spinach to the jazz 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 The Sonics. All the underground hits.
All John Coltrane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Doors record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
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 Sun Ra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Massinfluence,
Little Man,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Kinks,
Bronski Beat,
Tommy Roe,
Reuben Wilson,
Boz Scaggs,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Fela Kuti,
Kenny Larkin,
Aswad,
Agitation Free,
Kurtis Blow,
Tim Buckley,
Hot Snakes,
The Tremeloes,
the Bar-Kays,
Joey Negro,
The Music Machine,
F. McDonald,
Cybotron,
the Sonics,
Hashim,
AZ,
The Skatalites,
The Invisible,
The Red Krayola,
Harpers Bizarre,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Talk Talk,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The American Breed,
Letta Mbulu,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
LL Cool J,
The New Christs,
Black Pus,
Jesper Dahlback,
Negative Approach,
Maleditus Sound,
Scrapy,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Bill Wells,
Organ,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Rekid,
Matthew Bourne,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
John Cale,
Quantec,
Hasil Adkins,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Joe Smooth,
Quando Quango,
Warren Ellis,
Tres Demented,
Tubeway Army,
Youth Brigade,
Urselle,
Sandy B, Sandy B, Sandy B, Sandy B.
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.