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 United Kingdom and from New York.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Icehouse to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Kango’s Stein Massive. All the underground hits.
All The Last Poets tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cal Tjader record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Juan Atkins 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?
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
the Bar-Kays,
Public Enemy,
Radiohead,
The Gun Club,
Intrusion,
Eli Mardock,
Harry Pussy,
10cc,
John Coltrane,
Soulsonic Force,
Jerry's Kids,
Kaleidoscope,
Camouflage,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Supertramp,
The Mummies,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Joe Finger,
Albert Ayler,
Ponytail,
The Angels of Light,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Sonny Sharrock,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Desert Stars,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Gang Green,
The Selecter,
Andrew Hill,
Piero Umiliani,
Infiniti,
ABBA,
Unwound,
Second Layer,
Nation of Ulysses,
Animal Collective,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Q65,
Patti Smith,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Von Mondo,
The Dirtbombs,
Camberwell Now,
CMW,
Yellowson,
Circle Jerks,
Traffic Nightmare,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Khruangbin,
Judy Mowatt,
The Smiths,
Eden Ahbez,
Surgeon,
Alton Ellis,
Dawn Penn,
The Gap Band,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Basic Channel,
MDC,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson.
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.