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 Jordan and from Beijing.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Delhi.
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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the theremin 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 Outsiders to the grime kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Infiniti. All the underground hits.
All Lalo Schifrin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Andrew Hill record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 theremin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Larry & the Blue Notes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Stockholm Monsters,
Ronnie Foster,
Absolute Body Control,
Yazoo,
Cluster,
Don Cherry,
The Fortunes,
Quando Quango,
Peter and Kerry,
Black Moon,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
MC5,
Ultimate Spinach,
Ultravox,
Whodini,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
the Germs,
Anakelly,
Rapeman,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Flipper,
The Count Five,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Rhythm & Sound,
Public Image Ltd.,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Litter,
Dual Sessions,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Pantaleimon,
The Cure,
Quadrant,
Man Parrish,
The Modern Lovers,
Sister Nancy,
Soul Sonic Force,
Technova,
The Standells,
Newcleus,
Ronan,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Stiv Bators,
Sam Rivers,
Bootsy Collins,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Shadows of Knight,
Wasted Youth,
Television Personalities,
The Zeros,
Ken Boothe,
Gregory Isaacs,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Angels of Light,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Joyce Sims,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Au Pairs,
Main Source, Main Source, Main Source, Main Source.
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.