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 Angola and from Lagos.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Lyres 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 Yellowson. All the underground hits.
All Hashim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Barbara Tucker record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Neu! record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Moody Blues,
Simply Red,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Quantec,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Gregory Isaacs,
Grauzone,
One Last Wish,
Sexual Harrassment,
Suicide,
Michelle Simonal,
Icehouse,
Shuggie Otis,
The Sonics,
Morten Harket,
The Happenings,
Bobby Byrd,
Silicon Teens,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Joensuu 1685,
John Lydon,
Boz Scaggs,
Television Personalities,
Hot Snakes,
Buzzcocks,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Blake Baxter,
Camberwell Now,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Boogie Down Productions,
Ronnie Foster,
In Retrospect,
Rites of Spring,
Erasure,
X-Ray Spex,
Duran Duran,
Infiniti,
Ten City,
Popol Vuh,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Spoonie Gee,
The Gun Club,
Monolake,
Radio Birdman,
The Blackbyrds,
Funkadelic,
Barbara Tucker,
The Motions,
Dennis Brown,
Scratch Acid,
Royal Trux,
Ice-T,
Scott Walker,
Erykah Badu,
Howard Jones,
Isaac Hayes,
Moss Icon,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Girls At Our Best!,
Maleditus Sound,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Qualms,
Arab on Radar, Arab on Radar, Arab on Radar, Arab on Radar.
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.