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 Angola and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the güiro 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 Janne Schatter to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Bronski Beat. All the underground hits.
All Juan Atkins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Robert Görl 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delon & Dalcan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Cure,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Rakim,
Infiniti,
Section 25,
Byron Stingily,
ABC,
Tom Boy,
Colin Newman,
Joensuu 1685,
Gong,
The Birthday Party,
Blancmange,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Dorothy Ashby,
Scrapy,
Wally Richardson,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Loose Ends,
Isaac Hayes,
Sexual Harrassment,
Brick,
B.T. Express,
Henry Cow,
Oblivians,
Television,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
AZ,
Hoover,
Steve Hackett,
Eddi Front,
Gabor Szabo,
Altered Images,
X-101,
June Days,
Arthur Verocai,
Flamin' Groovies,
Jacob Miller,
Grandmaster Flash,
Soul II Soul,
Massinfluence,
X-102,
Pet Shop Boys,
Trumans Water,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Real Kids,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Popol Vuh,
Rekid,
Dead Boys,
Bill Near,
The Buckinghams,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
A Certain Ratio,
Donald Byrd,
Groovy Waters,
Kenny Larkin,
Hot Snakes,
Lou Reed,
Terry Callier,
Todd Rundgren,
Andrew Hill, Andrew Hill, Andrew Hill, Andrew Hill.
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.