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 Moldova and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Television Personalities to the funk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Roger Hodgson. All the underground hits.
All Blake Baxter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grauzone 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Flash Fearless record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Associates,
Mo-Dettes,
Stockholm Monsters,
Rod Modell,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Dave Clark Five,
Babytalk,
Buzzcocks,
Simply Red,
Reuben Wilson,
Underground Resistance,
Oblivians,
Accadde A,
Roger Hodgson,
Max Romeo,
Gregory Isaacs,
Dead Boys,
Connie Case,
Rufus Thomas,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Iggy Pop,
Deakin,
Kevin Saunderson,
Brass Construction,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Ultravox,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Curtis Mayfield,
Gastr Del Sol,
Scion,
Barclay James Harvest,
Danielle Patucci,
Dark Day,
Rotary Connection,
The Angels of Light,
Faust,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Hasil Adkins,
Stereo Dub,
Clear Light,
The J.B.'s,
The Golliwogs,
The Last Poets,
Neu!,
Soul Sonic Force,
Public Enemy,
Fatback Band,
Quadrant,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Bobby Womack,
Alton Ellis,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Glenn Branca,
The Doobie Brothers,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Pagans,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Knickerbockers,
Fat Boys,
Barry Ungar,
Gil Scott Heron, Gil Scott Heron, Gil Scott Heron, Gil Scott Heron.
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.