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 China and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 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 Cybotron to the techno kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Howard Jones. All the underground hits.
All The Skatalites tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Surgeon 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hardrive record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aural Exciters,
Black Sheep,
Nico,
Vladislav Delay,
10cc,
Warren Ellis,
Sarah Menescal,
Little Man,
Liliput,
Soulsonic Force,
The Invisible,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Rod Modell,
Lee Hazlewood,
Outsiders,
Country Teasers,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Residents,
Panda Bear,
John Holt,
The Zeros,
Funky Four + One,
The Busters,
Qualms,
Scott Walker,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Radio Birdman,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Unwound,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Cybotron,
Sound Behaviour,
Don Cherry,
Archie Shepp,
Yusef Lateef,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Gang Starr,
Barclay James Harvest,
Traffic Nightmare,
Sällskapet,
Sandy B,
Schoolly D,
Judy Mowatt,
The Monochrome Set,
Porter Ricks,
Magma,
Susan Cadogan,
Bill Wells,
Marvin Gaye,
The Move,
Bobby Womack,
Jeff Lynne,
Sight & Sound,
The Litter,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Names,
Soul II Soul,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Detroit Cobras,
Intrusion,
The Red Krayola,
Lakeside,
Clear Light, Clear Light, Clear Light, Clear Light.
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.