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 Greece and from Beijing.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Dual Sessions to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 The Neon Judgement. All the underground hits.
All Technova tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Michelle Simonal record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gabor Szabo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
K-Klass,
Nas,
Bush Tetras,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Audionom,
Sparks,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Dark Day,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Moebius,
Pagans,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Cluster,
The Victims,
Schoolly D,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Smoke,
Kaleidoscope,
T. Rex,
Jesper Dahlback,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Organ,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Robert Wyatt,
Carl Craig,
a-ha,
The Grass Roots,
Pet Shop Boys,
Kevin Saunderson,
Isaac Hayes,
Amon Düül,
Gang Green,
Black Flag,
Bobby Sherman,
The Seeds,
Joy Division,
Blake Baxter,
The Vogues,
The Techniques,
Ituana,
Bootsy Collins,
DJ Style,
Fela Kuti,
Tim Buckley,
Vainqueur,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Agitation Free,
Donny Hathaway,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Radiohead,
Alton Ellis,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Chris Corsano,
Jawbox,
Marvin Gaye,
Soft Machine,
New Order,
Ultra Naté,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Gang of Four,
Whodini,
Danielle Patucci,
Youth Brigade, Youth Brigade, Youth Brigade, Youth Brigade.
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.