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 Albania and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the organ 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 Red Lorry Yellow Lorry to the jazz 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 Depeche Mode. All the underground hits.
All Quantec tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Susan Cadogan 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ken Boothe record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bronski Beat,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Country Teasers,
Clear Light,
The Slits,
Ossler,
Alton Ellis,
Henry Cow,
Q and Not U,
Colin Newman,
Hasil Adkins,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Con Funk Shun,
Organ,
The Martian,
Dawn Penn,
Jerry's Kids,
F. McDonald,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Buzzcocks,
The Names,
Ludus,
Ituana,
Sonic Youth,
Saccharine Trust,
Aaron Thompson,
Dorothy Ashby,
Inner City,
Barclay James Harvest,
Erasure,
David McCallum,
Absolute Body Control,
Agent Orange,
Section 25,
Groovy Waters,
Mars,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Echospace,
Guru Guru,
This Heat,
Theoretical Girls,
Hashim,
Leonard Cohen,
Bill Near,
Urselle,
Sister Nancy,
48th St. Collective,
Grey Daturas,
Massinfluence,
June Days,
Essential Logic,
Fluxion,
Schoolly D,
Pierre Henry,
Gong,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Soulsonic Force,
Yusef Lateef,
Maleditus Sound,
Adolescents,
Janne Schatter,
Judy Mowatt,
Erykah Badu, Erykah Badu, Erykah Badu, Erykah Badu.
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.