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 Comoros and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 guitar 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 Blake Baxter to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Leonard Cohen. All the underground hits.
All The Happenings tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gories 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Warren Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bootsy Collins,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Reuben Wilson,
David Axelrod,
Dennis Brown,
Masters at Work,
Sound Behaviour,
The Pop Group,
June Days,
Khruangbin,
Robert Hood,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Radiopuhelimet,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Five Americans,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Al Stewart,
Clear Light,
Derrick Morgan,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Babytalk,
Lyres,
Maurizio,
Scientists,
Gang of Four,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Section 25,
Country Teasers,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
LL Cool J,
John Lydon,
CMW,
Delta 5,
Main Source,
The Dirtbombs,
L. Decosne,
Von Mondo,
Hashim,
U.S. Maple,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Rufus Thomas,
Bizarre Inc.,
Matthew Bourne,
Barbara Tucker,
The Searchers,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Qualms,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Wolf Eyes,
Roxy Music,
China Crisis,
a-ha,
Adolescents,
Bang On A Can,
Gabor Szabo,
Ludus,
Black Pus,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme, Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme, Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme, Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme.
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.