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 Honduras 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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Sun Ra Arkestra to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Fort Wilson Riot. All the underground hits.
All Harmonia tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Vogues record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 808 and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a FM Einheit record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Kinks,
X-Ray Spex,
New York Dolls,
LL Cool J,
The Golliwogs,
John Lydon,
Delta 5,
Sandy B,
Outsiders,
The Vogues,
The Young Rascals,
Reuben Wilson,
Heaven 17,
Wally Richardson,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Surgeon,
Main Source,
Sarah Menescal,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The New Christs,
The Smoke,
Mad Mike,
Cluster,
Negative Approach,
Kevin Saunderson,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Ultimate Spinach,
Mark Hollis,
Altered Images,
Ralphi Rosario,
Roger Hodgson,
Gichy Dan,
Joensuu 1685,
Pulsallama,
EPMD,
Icehouse,
R.M.O.,
Loose Ends,
Make Up,
Faust,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Leaves,
The Invisible,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The American Breed,
OOIOO,
UT,
Quantec,
Aural Exciters,
Steve Hackett,
Howard Jones,
The Dirtbombs,
Derrick Morgan,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Stooges,
Maleditus Sound,
Anakelly,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Bluetip,
Slave,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Residents,
The Pop Group, The Pop Group, The Pop Group, The Pop Group.
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.