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 Sri Lanka and from Glasgow.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 harpsichord 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 X-102 to the grime 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 Heaven 17. All the underground hits.
All Darondo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pharoah Sanders 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Public Enemy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nils Olav,
Neil Young,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Dennis Brown,
The Motions,
Mars,
Crispian St. Peters,
Drexciya,
The Music Machine,
Gang Gang Dance,
Pantaleimon,
Buzzcocks,
Yazoo,
Gang of Four,
Glenn Branca,
Pole,
Nico,
Animal Collective,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Soft Cell,
Massinfluence,
Chris & Cosey,
Robert Wyatt,
Ultimate Spinach,
Barbara Tucker,
Alton Ellis,
Flamin' Groovies,
kango's stein massive,
The Dave Clark Five,
Pharoah Sanders,
Joey Negro,
The Gun Club,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Ten City,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Tommy Roe,
Alice Coltrane,
Sound Behaviour,
Nation of Ulysses,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Neon Judgement,
Althea and Donna,
Au Pairs,
The Cure,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Angry Samoans,
JFA,
Skarface,
Connie Case,
R.M.O.,
Pagans,
Bad Manners,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Boz Scaggs,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Barry Ungar,
Country Teasers,
Second Layer,
a-ha,
Y Pants,
David Axelrod,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.