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 Iceland and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 spring reverb 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 K-Klass to the techno 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 Marshall Jefferson. All the underground hits.
All Niagra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roger Hodgson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Godley & Creme,
Urselle,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Lower 48,
The Cowsills,
Animal Collective,
Tropical Tobacco,
Todd Terry,
Boredoms,
Kurtis Blow,
Toni Rubio,
Tomorrow,
Derrick May,
Eli Mardock,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Girls At Our Best!,
Bad Manners,
Bluetip,
Yusef Lateef,
The Sound,
Eurythmics,
Roger Hodgson,
Rufus Thomas,
Ohio Players,
Bob Dylan,
These Immortal Souls,
MDC,
Blancmange,
A Flock of Seagulls,
the Germs,
Schoolly D,
Mandrill,
The Gap Band,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Drexciya,
Easy Going,
Country Teasers,
Matthew Halsall,
Deadbeat,
John Coltrane,
Sexual Harrassment,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Supertramp,
Faust,
Nirvana,
Sound Behaviour,
Tim Buckley,
L. Decosne,
MC5,
The Pop Group,
Skaos,
Bauhaus,
Banda Bassotti,
Talk Talk,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Black Dice,
Black Bananas,
Cecil Taylor,
Q and Not U,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Evens, The Evens, The Evens, The Evens.
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.