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 Venezuela and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Lebanon Hanover to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Vaughan Mason & Crew. All the underground hits.
All The Evens tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fall record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Associates,
Carl Craig,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Junior Murvin,
Technova,
Chris Corsano,
Mission of Burma,
The Cure,
Peter & Gordon,
The Golliwogs,
Whodini,
Echospace,
Ornette Coleman,
Tom Boy,
FM Einheit,
The Leaves,
Niagra,
The Motions,
Flamin' Groovies,
Deadbeat,
Juan Atkins,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Sonic Youth,
Gabor Szabo,
Essential Logic,
Donald Byrd,
The Cowsills,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Shuggie Otis,
Tomorrow,
L. Decosne,
Pet Shop Boys,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Theoretical Girls,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Frankie Knuckles,
Soul Sonic Force,
Althea and Donna,
The Move,
Freddie Wadling,
Roxy Music,
Guru Guru,
Robert Wyatt,
Stereo Dub,
This Heat,
The Monks,
World's Most,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Bootsy Collins,
Second Layer,
The Music Machine,
Oneida,
Harry Pussy,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Cramps,
Fatback Band,
Erasure,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Residents,
Joey Negro,
Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul.
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.