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 Sri Lanka and from Bologna.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 the Human League to the rap kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Minny Pops. All the underground hits.
All Easy Going tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aaron Thompson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Animal Collective,
FM Einheit,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Roy Ayers,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Talk Talk,
Fad Gadget,
Girls At Our Best!,
Electric Prunes,
Gang of Four,
Minor Threat,
Junior Murvin,
Pantytec,
EPMD,
Smog,
Sparks,
Max Romeo,
The Gap Band,
Todd Terry,
Reuben Wilson,
10cc,
Bill Wells,
Soul Sonic Force,
Cybotron,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Eddi Front,
Hasil Adkins,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Television Personalities,
Hashim,
Magma,
Letta Mbulu,
T. Rex,
The Star Department,
Organ,
Siglo XX,
The Birthday Party,
Half Japanese,
Black Bananas,
Danielle Patucci,
Chris Corsano,
Ohio Players,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Count Five,
In Retrospect,
Kurtis Blow,
OOIOO,
Mandrill,
Vainqueur,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Gories,
Gang Starr,
Terry Callier,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Evens,
Wolf Eyes,
T.S.O.L.,
Rufus Thomas,
Tropical Tobacco,
D'Angelo,
Jesper Dahlback,
Pierre Henry,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux.
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.