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 Belarus and from Paris.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the organ 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 Maurizio to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Sonny Sharrock. All the underground hits.
All Glambeats Corp. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Adolescents record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roy Ayers 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?
Flash Fearless,
Vladislav Delay,
John Lydon,
Hot Snakes,
Slave,
Morten Harket,
Dave Gahan,
Isaac Hayes,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
E-Dancer,
Stockholm Monsters,
Black Bananas,
a-ha,
Bob Dylan,
Procol Harum,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Real Kids,
Al Stewart,
Dawn Penn,
PIL,
Tears for Fears,
Yusef Lateef,
ABC,
Jimmy McGriff,
Alphaville,
Organ,
The Sound,
Graham Central Station,
Whodini,
Mark Hollis,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Dual Sessions,
Main Source,
Pierre Henry,
Sam Rivers,
Reuben Wilson,
Kas Product,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Sugar Minott,
Rufus Thomas,
Hoover,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
X-102,
Barrington Levy,
Eurythmics,
Jawbox,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
U.S. Maple,
Chris Corsano,
the Bar-Kays,
Brothers Johnson,
Pantaleimon,
Kenny Larkin,
Roger Hodgson,
Delon & Dalcan,
Panda Bear,
Nas,
Arthur Verocai,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Maurizio, Maurizio, Maurizio, Maurizio.
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.