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 Spain and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 David Bowie 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 Michelle Simonal to the funk 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 Isaac Hayes. All the underground hits.
All Little Man tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Harmonia record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 güiro and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Heaven 17 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Qualms,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
kango's stein massive,
Hashim,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Slick Rick,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Be Bop Deluxe,
In Retrospect,
Marmalade,
Kevin Saunderson,
David McCallum,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Robert Hood,
Agent Orange,
The New Christs,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
F. McDonald,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Toasters,
Joe Finger,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Marine Girls,
Matthew Halsall,
Gastr Del Sol,
Tim Buckley,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Danielle Patucci,
Cameo,
CMW,
Metal Thangz,
Duran Duran,
The Birthday Party,
Oblivians,
Letta Mbulu,
ABBA,
Morten Harket,
Clear Light,
The Slits,
Inner City,
Aaron Thompson,
The Electric Prunes,
The Real Kids,
Pharoah Sanders,
Radiohead,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Negative Approach,
Liliput,
Delon & Dalcan,
Public Enemy,
Cecil Taylor,
The Dirtbombs,
Animal Collective,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Frankie Knuckles,
Cal Tjader,
Saccharine Trust,
Lee Hazlewood, Lee Hazlewood, Lee Hazlewood, Lee Hazlewood.
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.