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 Azerbaijan and from Jakarta.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Grauzone to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Lalo Schifrin. All the underground hits.
All Quando Quango tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Crooked Eye record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jeff Mills record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Gories,
Cymande,
The Young Rascals,
Matthew Halsall,
Quando Quango,
China Crisis,
The Toasters,
Drive Like Jehu,
Todd Terry,
Aswad,
Pierre Henry,
Cal Tjader,
Skriet,
Lindisfarne,
The Dirtbombs,
Flamin' Groovies,
Goldenarms,
Crispy Ambulance,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Boogie Down Productions,
The J.B.'s,
The Alarm Clocks,
Roger Hodgson,
Funkadelic,
D'Angelo,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Trojans,
Gerry Rafferty,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Ossler,
Wire,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Nas,
H. Thieme,
Kevin Saunderson,
Kerri Chandler,
Jeff Lynne,
Brand Nubian,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Ohio Players,
Ultra Naté,
MDC,
Ultimate Spinach,
X-101,
Swans,
Marc Almond,
Soulsonic Force,
La Düsseldorf,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Agent Orange,
MC5,
Warsaw,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Barracudas,
Joyce Sims,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
the Bar-Kays,
Popol Vuh,
The Monks,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Ornette Coleman,
The Invisible, The Invisible, The Invisible, The Invisible.
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.