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 Namibia and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron 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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the marimba 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 Manfred Mann's Earth Band to the crunk 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 Massinfluence. All the underground hits.
All The Music Machine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Japan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a D'Angelo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
David Axelrod,
Thee Headcoats,
The Selecter,
Aaron Thompson,
The Dave Clark Five,
Matthew Bourne,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Peter & Gordon,
Lalann,
Dead Boys,
Robert Görl,
X-101,
One Last Wish,
Procol Harum,
The Skatalites,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Bobby Byrd,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Roger Hodgson,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
PIL,
The Evens,
Swell Maps,
Brand Nubian,
Ornette Coleman,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Move,
The Trojans,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Ice-T,
Bill Wells,
Jerry's Kids,
The Shadows of Knight,
Blake Baxter,
The Blues Magoos,
Q65,
Camouflage,
the Soft Cell,
Flipper,
Neu!,
Lee Hazlewood,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Divine Comedy,
Kool Moe Dee,
Junior Murvin,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Groovy Waters,
U.S. Maple,
Pharoah Sanders,
Rotary Connection,
Black Moon,
Gichy Dan,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Ken Boothe,
EPMD,
Gong,
Outsiders,
Electric Prunes,
Simply Red,
Babytalk,
Main Source, Main Source, Main Source, Main Source.
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.