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 Georgia and from Delhi.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Skriet to the funk 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 The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band. All the underground hits.
All Hardrive tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gian Franco Pienzio,
the Slits,
Chrome,
Sun City Girls,
Shuggie Otis,
Bill Wells,
The Doors,
Sun Ra,
D'Angelo,
The Associates,
Alton Ellis,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Buckinghams,
Sound Behaviour,
Joyce Sims,
Pantytec,
Lindisfarne,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Unrelated Segments,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Remains,
Public Image Ltd.,
PIL,
The Knickerbockers,
kango's stein massive,
CMW,
Crash Course in Science,
Nas,
The Star Department,
Bobby Sherman,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Aaron Thompson,
Isaac Hayes,
The Mummies,
The Offenders,
Eric Copeland,
Simply Red,
JFA,
Nation of Ulysses,
Parry Music,
Animal Collective,
The Smiths,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Graham Central Station,
Ronnie Foster,
Barrington Levy,
Black Pus,
F. McDonald,
Rhythm & Sound,
Sonny Sharrock,
James White and The Blacks,
Unwound,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Rites of Spring,
Siglo XX,
Mo-Dettes,
Cluster,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Ossler,
Ronan,
Pylon,
Jeff Lynne, Jeff Lynne, Jeff Lynne, Jeff Lynne.
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.