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 Liberia and from Beijing.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Eli Mardock to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Audionom. All the underground hits.
All Arthur Verocai tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ken Boothe record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a DJ Style record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aural Exciters,
Matthew Halsall,
Con Funk Shun,
Quantec,
Boz Scaggs,
Cal Tjader,
Skriet,
PIL,
Slick Rick,
Sam Rivers,
Maleditus Sound,
10cc,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Flash Fearless,
Arthur Verocai,
Animal Collective,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Slits,
Leonard Cohen,
Ultra Naté,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
DJ Style,
Jesper Dahlback,
Radio Birdman,
Big Daddy Kane,
Kas Product,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Sexual Harrassment,
Cameo,
Popol Vuh,
Amazonics,
Janne Schatter,
The Zeros,
Eric Copeland,
Al Stewart,
Iggy Pop,
Bootsy Collins,
Television Personalities,
Smog,
Marvin Gaye,
Pierre Henry,
The Wake,
Main Source,
Bobby Sherman,
Japan,
The Shadows of Knight,
Adolescents,
Organ,
Gabor Szabo,
Boogie Down Productions,
Hashim,
Sight & Sound,
Youth Brigade,
Barrington Levy,
Darondo,
Urselle,
Bob Dylan,
Y Pants,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Kaleidoscope,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Maurizio,
Half Japanese,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Mighty Diamonds, The Mighty Diamonds, The Mighty Diamonds, The Mighty Diamonds.
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.