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 China and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez 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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Copenhagen.
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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
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 Warren Ellis to the grime kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Pylon. All the underground hits.
All Parry Music tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marshall Jefferson 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Moby Grape record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sister Nancy,
Hasil Adkins,
Trumans Water,
Sound Behaviour,
Blancmange,
X-101,
Can,
Quantec,
Nirvana,
Moby Grape,
Ludus,
Robert Wyatt,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Groovy Waters,
the Swans,
Lalann,
Mission of Burma,
Marc Almond,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Connie Case,
Au Pairs,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Scan 7,
David Bowie,
Ronan,
Negative Approach,
The Tremeloes,
Ultimate Spinach,
Anakelly,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Sound,
DNA,
Marvin Gaye,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Organ,
Funkadelic,
Morten Harket,
kango's stein massive,
Bad Manners,
Flash Fearless,
Warsaw,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Grandmaster Flash,
Shuggie Otis,
The Shadows of Knight,
Max Romeo,
The Knickerbockers,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Severed Heads,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Drexciya,
Davy DMX,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Fortunes,
The Durutti Column,
New York Dolls,
Minnie Riperton,
Alphaville,
Spandau Ballet,
Toni Rubio,
One Last Wish,
Frankie Knuckles,
Aural Exciters, Aural Exciters, Aural Exciters, Aural Exciters.
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.