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 Australia and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 The Cosmic Jokers to the rap kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Agent Orange. All the underground hits.
All Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bluetip record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Glambeats Corp.,
Black Pus,
Carl Craig,
Faraquet,
Babytalk,
Gong,
The Slackers,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Monochrome Set,
One Last Wish,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Chris Corsano,
Dead Boys,
Altered Images,
Animal Collective,
Index,
Outsiders,
The Fugs,
Eric Dolphy,
Boredoms,
Make Up,
New Order,
This Heat,
Mad Mike,
Loose Ends,
Charles Mingus,
Pantaleimon,
Deepchord,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
DJ Style,
Public Enemy,
Robert Hood,
Second Layer,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Soul II Soul,
Don Cherry,
Crash Course in Science,
Fugazi,
Sun City Girls,
Banda Bassotti,
Theoretical Girls,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Hot Snakes,
Shoche,
Jeff Lynne,
Cabaret Voltaire,
T.S.O.L.,
Vainqueur,
Infiniti,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Big Daddy Kane,
Fat Boys,
Idris Muhammad,
Ralphi Rosario,
Hardrive,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark.
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.