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 France and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Laurel Aitken to the funk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Lou Christie. All the underground hits.
All Jesper Dahlbäck tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lower 48 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a MC5 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yazoo,
Zapp,
Fad Gadget,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Colin Newman,
Jeff Mills,
Lungfish,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Stooges,
Brass Construction,
Kool Moe Dee,
Schoolly D,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Los Fastidios,
Howard Jones,
Lalann,
Bronski Beat,
Amon Düül II,
Erasure,
Lakeside,
Anthony Braxton,
The Toasters,
The Searchers,
Audionom,
T. Rex,
Newcleus,
The United States of America,
Television,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Rotary Connection,
Susan Cadogan,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Matthew Bourne,
Q and Not U,
Barrington Levy,
The Fall,
The Durutti Column,
cv313,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Donald Byrd,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Young Rascals,
Roy Ayers,
The Smoke,
Arab on Radar,
Infiniti,
Barry Ungar,
John Lydon,
Jeff Lynne,
Eli Mardock,
The Walker Brothers,
Graham Central Station,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Visage,
Laurel Aitken,
Fatback Band,
JFA,
Lucky Dragons,
Country Teasers,
AZ,
The Five Americans,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
FM Einheit,
Thompson Twins, Thompson Twins, Thompson Twins, Thompson Twins.
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.