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 Tanzania and from Salvador.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Copenhagen.
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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Scion to the rock 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 New Age Steppers. All the underground hits.
All a-ha tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Heavy D & The Boyz 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a guitar 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 guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Sherman,
Scott Walker,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
FM Einheit,
Don Cherry,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Scratch Acid,
The Black Dice,
Delta 5,
Hot Snakes,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Move,
Country Teasers,
Gong,
Mo-Dettes,
Fatback Band,
Flash Fearless,
Funky Four + One,
One Last Wish,
Icehouse,
The Doors,
Quantec,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Dark Day,
Reagan Youth,
Massinfluence,
The Human League,
MC5,
Harpers Bizarre,
Ornette Coleman,
Trumans Water,
Bronski Beat,
Eric Copeland,
Yellowson,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Chrome,
Main Source,
Masters at Work,
The Neon Judgement,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Byron Stingily,
Stockholm Monsters,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Chris & Cosey,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Crime,
The Smoke,
Soulsonic Force,
Robert Hood,
Supertramp,
Morten Harket,
Subhumans,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Gerry Rafferty,
Radiohead,
Marvin Gaye,
Zero Boys,
Patti Smith,
Inner City,
Malaria!,
D'Angelo, D'Angelo, D'Angelo, D'Angelo.
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.