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 Uganda and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Ludus to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Vainqueur. All the underground hits.
All Ten City tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Move record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 clarinet and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Skaos record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
ABC,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Delta 5,
The Evens,
the Soft Cell,
Angry Samoans,
Johnny Osbourne,
Althea and Donna,
Jeff Mills,
Scan 7,
Von Mondo,
Ronnie Foster,
Joe Finger,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Stetsasonic,
The Barracudas,
D'Angelo,
Silicon Teens,
Easy Going,
Wings,
Buzzcocks,
Cameo,
Lebanon Hanover,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
This Heat,
John Cale,
The Moody Blues,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Black Pus,
Bootsy Collins,
Gong,
Livin' Joy,
Soft Cell,
Byron Stingily,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Gap Band,
Duran Duran,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Theoretical Girls,
JFA,
Zapp,
Pet Shop Boys,
Moby Grape,
Jeff Lynne,
Pierre Henry,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Smoke,
Sixth Finger,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Main Source,
Skaos,
The Sound,
Section 25,
Aural Exciters,
The Golliwogs,
Sonny Sharrock,
Sällskapet,
H. Thieme,
Carl Craig,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Flash Fearless,
Joyce Sims,
Gabor Szabo, Gabor Szabo, Gabor Szabo, Gabor Szabo.
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.