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 Czech Republic and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 mellotron 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 Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Danielle Patucci. All the underground hits.
All Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Essential Logic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Neil Young record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare 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 Count Five,
Robert Wyatt,
Joe Smooth,
Rotary Connection,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Ituana,
In Retrospect,
Bill Near,
Kas Product,
Nas,
Glenn Branca,
Porter Ricks,
Spoonie Gee,
Girls At Our Best!,
Mary Jane Girls,
Cecil Taylor,
Tomorrow,
The Evens,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Aural Exciters,
Godley & Creme,
John Coltrane,
Schoolly D,
Yazoo,
Amazonics,
Crime,
Soft Machine,
This Heat,
Lalo Schifrin,
June Days,
Procol Harum,
Motorama,
Freddie Wadling,
The Fall,
Gastr Del Sol,
Pharoah Sanders,
Mark Hollis,
Eden Ahbez,
Nick Fraelich,
Swans,
Terry Callier,
Nirvana,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Dark Day,
Byron Stingily,
ABBA,
Hashim,
Suicide,
Depeche Mode,
Joe Finger,
The Golliwogs,
Crooked Eye,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Grey Daturas,
The Sound,
The Selecter,
Section 25,
Boz Scaggs,
Stereo Dub,
Pere Ubu,
Alphaville,
Johnny Osbourne,
DJ Style,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds.
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.