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 Chile and from Manchester.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Brothers Johnson to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 The Gap Band. All the underground hits.
All Television Personalities tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mad Mike 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 an organ and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aloha Tigers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sparks,
Television Personalities,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
World's Most,
Don Cherry,
Fat Boys,
Theoretical Girls,
Duran Duran,
Susan Cadogan,
Bootsy Collins,
Blossom Toes,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
AZ,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Absolute Body Control,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Skaos,
Amon Düül,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Tubeway Army,
Yazoo,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Amon Düül II,
Young Marble Giants,
Boredoms,
Neil Young,
Max Romeo,
The Moleskins,
Mary Jane Girls,
This Heat,
Lalo Schifrin,
Minor Threat,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Lyres,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Martian,
The Neon Judgement,
Siglo XX,
Wasted Youth,
Inner City,
Yusef Lateef,
Black Moon,
Flash Fearless,
Curtis Mayfield,
Can,
Eric B and Rakim,
Bobby Womack,
Man Eating Sloth,
Terrestrial Tones,
Vladislav Delay,
Gang Green,
Rekid,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal.
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.