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 Maldives and from Woodstock.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Chris Corsano to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Jacob Miller. All the underground hits.
All Stockholm Monsters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Barrington Levy 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Robert Görl record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rotary Connection,
Joyce Sims,
Minor Threat,
DJ Sneak,
Marshall Jefferson,
Gabor Szabo,
Yaz,
Barrington Levy,
The Stooges,
Audionom,
Quantec,
Eden Ahbez,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Surgeon,
Absolute Body Control,
Malaria!,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Sound,
L. Decosne,
Sandy B,
Dawn Penn,
Sexual Harrassment,
John Foxx,
The Monks,
Throbbing Gristle,
Subhumans,
PIL,
The Fall,
Bronski Beat,
Rhythm & Sound,
Colin Newman,
China Crisis,
Guru Guru,
Goldenarms,
Inner City,
The Gun Club,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Massinfluence,
Barry Ungar,
The United States of America,
The Doobie Brothers,
Country Teasers,
Thee Headcoats,
Boredoms,
Icehouse,
The Angels of Light,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Camberwell Now,
Scan 7,
Michelle Simonal,
Alice Coltrane,
The Smiths,
La Düsseldorf,
Black Pus,
Saccharine Trust,
Hashim,
Maurizio,
Shuggie Otis,
Can, Can, Can, Can.
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.