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 Madagascar and from Cairo.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft to the techno 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 Monolake. All the underground hits.
All The Searchers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Techniques 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
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 Kool G Rap & DJ Polo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Judy Mowatt,
The United States of America,
Kurtis Blow,
X-101,
Groovy Waters,
The Neon Judgement,
Agitation Free,
New Order,
Wasted Youth,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Cecil Taylor,
10cc,
a-ha,
K-Klass,
Connie Case,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Gang of Four,
Can,
Amon Düül,
Donny Hathaway,
Joey Negro,
David McCallum,
Massinfluence,
AZ,
Wire,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Drive Like Jehu,
Josef K,
Leonard Cohen,
Skaos,
Malaria!,
Rufus Thomas,
Kenny Larkin,
Cymande,
ABBA,
The Angels of Light,
Skarface,
Ossler,
Andrew Hill,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Johnny Clarke,
Urselle,
The Mummies,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Count Five,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Five Americans,
the Fania All-Stars,
Desert Stars,
Thee Headcoats,
Ultravox,
Kerrie Biddell,
David Axelrod,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Basic Channel,
Eve St. Jones,
Y Pants,
F. McDonald,
Reagan Youth,
Gabor Szabo,
Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe.
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.