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 Georgia and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 Holger Czukay 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 Subhumans to the funk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Oppenheimer Analysis. All the underground hits.
All The Move tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Talk Talk record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 marimba and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jacob Miller record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Minny Pops,
Joe Smooth,
Brothers Johnson,
Dorothy Ashby,
Joy Division,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
48th St. Collective,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Blackbyrds,
The Pop Group,
These Immortal Souls,
Mars,
The Barracudas,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Sugar Minott,
Spoonie Gee,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Flipper,
La Düsseldorf,
Newcleus,
Scrapy,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Excepter,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Basic Channel,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The United States of America,
Bluetip,
Popol Vuh,
Radiohead,
Davy DMX,
The Tremeloes,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Inner City,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Delon & Dalcan,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Dual Sessions,
Althea and Donna,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Dawn Penn,
The Durutti Column,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Scion,
Cal Tjader,
Dave Gahan,
Eurythmics,
Second Layer,
Ken Boothe,
Index,
The Dirtbombs,
The Offenders,
Pagans,
Supertramp,
The Toasters,
OOIOO,
Cheater Slicks,
Yellowson, Yellowson, Yellowson, Yellowson.
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.