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 Haiti and from Paris.
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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Jakarta.
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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the marimba 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 Jeff Mills to the grime 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 Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft. All the underground hits.
All Cybotron tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bootsy Collins 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lalann,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Dead C,
The Slackers,
The Invisible,
Organ,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Spoonie Gee,
Hardrive,
The Gories,
JFA,
China Crisis,
Matthew Halsall,
Todd Terry,
The Cowsills,
Radiopuhelimet,
Sugar Minott,
H. Thieme,
Babytalk,
Pharoah Sanders,
David Axelrod,
Joey Negro,
Joensuu 1685,
Simply Red,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Sound Behaviour,
World's Most,
Talk Talk,
Ronan,
The Human League,
Moebius,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Lungfish,
Metal Thangz,
Cecil Taylor,
Intrusion,
Cal Tjader,
The Remains,
the Bar-Kays,
Inner City,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Ice-T,
The Fugs,
Jandek,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Livin' Joy,
Rites of Spring,
Second Layer,
Gang of Four,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Half Japanese,
Leonard Cohen,
Crispian St. Peters,
Basic Channel,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Erasure,
Marcia Griffiths,
Jeff Lynne,
Trumans Water,
Reuben Wilson,
Neil Young,
The Raincoats,
Maleditus Sound, Maleditus Sound, Maleditus Sound, Maleditus Sound.
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.