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 San Marino and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 organ 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 Be Bop Deluxe to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Idris Muhammad. All the underground hits.
All Red Lorry Yellow Lorry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dark Day record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ohio Players,
Parry Music,
The Evens,
Banda Bassotti,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Modern Lovers,
New York Dolls,
The Searchers,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Jesper Dahlback,
Pet Shop Boys,
Inner City,
Anakelly,
Maleditus Sound,
Grandmaster Flash,
Cybotron,
Peter & Gordon,
DJ Style,
The Kinks,
Tears for Fears,
Scrapy,
the Human League,
Eden Ahbez,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Moebius,
Yusef Lateef,
Magazine,
8 Eyed Spy,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Michelle Simonal,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Sällskapet,
Motorama,
Nick Fraelich,
Rotary Connection,
Joey Negro,
Index,
Roxette,
Sugar Minott,
Glambeats Corp.,
Dual Sessions,
Half Japanese,
Boz Scaggs,
Whodini,
The Buckinghams,
UT,
Donny Hathaway,
48th St. Collective,
Pere Ubu,
Liliput,
Yellowson,
Talk Talk,
Hardrive,
Intrusion,
Ossler,
Can,
The Divine Comedy,
Brass Construction,
Joyce Sims,
Sun City Girls,
Sandy B,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Human League,
Monolake, Monolake, Monolake, Monolake.
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.