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 Estonia and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic 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 OOIOO. All the underground hits.
All Robert Görl tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Blues Magoos record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 an arpeggiator and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a OOIOO record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Dave Gahan,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Bobby Sherman,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
10cc,
Blancmange,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Quando Quango,
Gabor Szabo,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Skriet,
Ice-T,
Bobby Byrd,
Josef K,
Darondo,
Albert Ayler,
Kurtis Blow,
Althea and Donna,
One Last Wish,
Metal Thangz,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Matthew Bourne,
Lalann,
Pulsallama,
Radiohead,
H. Thieme,
Black Moon,
The Happenings,
The Grass Roots,
Ornette Coleman,
Jacques Brel,
Angry Samoans,
Cameo,
Nik Kershaw,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Funkadelic,
Sam Rivers,
Bronski Beat,
Von Mondo,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Doobie Brothers,
the Human League,
Interpol,
The Modern Lovers,
Ultravox,
the Sonics,
The Victims,
Lalo Schifrin,
Mad Mike,
R.M.O.,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Stetsasonic,
Kool Moe Dee,
Suburban Knight,
Nirvana,
World's Most,
Roy Ayers,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Lucky Dragons, Lucky Dragons, Lucky Dragons, Lucky Dragons.
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.