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 Niger and from Tokyo.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 marimba 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 Kings Of Tomorrow to the disco 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 Janne Schatter. All the underground hits.
All Bizarre Inc. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Derrick Morgan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 synthesizer and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a In Retrospect record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Von Mondo,
Heaven 17,
Quadrant,
Easy Going,
Scion,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Litter,
Scientists,
Reagan Youth,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Warren Ellis,
Sonic Youth,
La Düsseldorf,
The Blues Magoos,
Dave Gahan,
Traffic Nightmare,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Black Sheep,
Josef K,
Andrew Hill,
Duran Duran,
Letta Mbulu,
Unwound,
The Pretty Things,
The Dave Clark Five,
Cheater Slicks,
The Neon Judgement,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Roy Ayers,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Bobby Byrd,
Dual Sessions,
Ornette Coleman,
The Grass Roots,
Todd Rundgren,
Camberwell Now,
Spandau Ballet,
Adolescents,
The Trojans,
Crime,
Rhythm & Sound,
Gang Gang Dance,
Nils Olav,
Ice-T,
David McCallum,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Terry Callier,
David Axelrod,
Fluxion,
Aloha Tigers,
Donny Hathaway,
Lou Reed,
Aswad,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Residents,
Crash Course in Science,
The Tremeloes,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Juan Atkins,
Monolake, Monolake, Monolake, Monolake.
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.