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 Saudi Arabia and from Salvador.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Calgary.
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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 David Axelrod to the disco 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 Vaughan Mason & Crew. All the underground hits.
All The Residents tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Y Pants record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Agitation Free record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Walker Brothers,
Chris & Cosey,
The Litter,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Lou Reed,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Happenings,
Flipper,
June of 44,
The Cowsills,
Make Up,
Yazoo,
Scan 7,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Colin Newman,
The Star Department,
The Sound,
The Doobie Brothers,
Darondo,
Jerry's Kids,
Sparks,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Nas,
Suburban Knight,
Shuggie Otis,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Slits,
Yusef Lateef,
Sight & Sound,
Mars,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
These Immortal Souls,
Cameo,
The Young Rascals,
This Heat,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Cymande,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Thee Headcoats,
D'Angelo,
Ken Boothe,
Rites of Spring,
Spoonie Gee,
John Cale,
Black Moon,
Smog,
The Monochrome Set,
Main Source,
Gichy Dan,
Nik Kershaw,
The Seeds,
Adolescents,
Bootsy Collins,
K-Klass,
The Invisible,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Country Joe & The Fish,
MC5,
Gabor Szabo,
Tropical Tobacco,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes.
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.