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 Madagascar and from Lagos.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the rhodes 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 ABC to the punk 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 The Alarm Clocks. All the underground hits.
All Lou Christie tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soulsonic Force 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hasil Adkins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Panda Bear,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Ludus,
The Divine Comedy,
Judy Mowatt,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Angry Samoans,
the Bar-Kays,
Dennis Brown,
The Sound,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Rhythm & Sound,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Modern Lovers,
Jandek,
Zapp,
Fela Kuti,
Rekid,
Joensuu 1685,
Depeche Mode,
Symarip,
The Fugs,
The Pretty Things,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Idris Muhammad,
Roxette,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Grauzone,
Delon & Dalcan,
Mad Mike,
Alton Ellis,
The Happenings,
Sexual Harrassment,
Robert Wyatt,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Crispian St. Peters,
Traffic Nightmare,
Can,
Albert Ayler,
Liliput,
Nik Kershaw,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
cv313,
Desert Stars,
Carl Craig,
David Axelrod,
Leonard Cohen,
Davy DMX,
Black Moon,
Danielle Patucci,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Crash Course in Science,
K-Klass,
Freddie Wadling,
Porter Ricks,
Buzzcocks,
Schoolly D,
Janne Schatter,
Kevin Saunderson, Kevin Saunderson, Kevin Saunderson, Kevin Saunderson.
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.