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 Madagascar and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 marimba 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 Inner City to the rock 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 Popol Vuh. All the underground hits.
All Thompson Twins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DNA 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Supertramp record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eden Ahbez,
Peter & Gordon,
MDC,
Aloha Tigers,
Eddi Front,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Bobby Womack,
Jeru the Damaja,
Goldenarms,
Rufus Thomas,
Nirvana,
Mars,
The Grass Roots,
Mark Hollis,
Liliput,
Freddie Wadling,
Echospace,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Babytalk,
Zero Boys,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Scrapy,
Pylon,
Bizarre Inc.,
Bill Near,
Sixth Finger,
Rekid,
Warsaw,
Glambeats Corp.,
Pole,
Cal Tjader,
The Red Krayola,
UT,
Iggy Pop,
Nick Fraelich,
Faraquet,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Techniques,
Clear Light,
The Human League,
The Walker Brothers,
John Coltrane,
Ultimate Spinach,
Los Fastidios,
Radiopuhelimet,
Ossler,
Alison Limerick,
Spoonie Gee,
Pere Ubu,
Sonny Sharrock,
Carl Craig,
Marvin Gaye,
Aural Exciters,
Laurel Aitken,
Gabor Szabo,
Kurtis Blow,
Sonic Youth,
Matthew Bourne,
Sällskapet,
Nation of Ulysses,
Skaos,
Supertramp, Supertramp, Supertramp, Supertramp.
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.