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 Algeria and from Johannesburg.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Beijing.
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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the organ 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 The Moody Blues to the disco 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 OOIOO. All the underground hits.
All Underground Resistance tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alphaville record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pet Shop Boys record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pylon,
The Evens,
Shoche,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Guru Guru,
Lee Hazlewood,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Carl Craig,
Junior Murvin,
Colin Newman,
Talk Talk,
The Leaves,
Erasure,
Wasted Youth,
Gang Green,
June of 44,
Robert Wyatt,
Basic Channel,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The New Christs,
Rites of Spring,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Mission of Burma,
LL Cool J,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Scratch Acid,
Sam Rivers,
Andrew Hill,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Blake Baxter,
Gastr Del Sol,
Rekid,
Ornette Coleman,
Dawn Penn,
Quando Quango,
a-ha,
Yaz,
Ronan,
The Blackbyrds,
Mark Hollis,
Hoover,
Lower 48,
Can,
Maleditus Sound,
The Blues Magoos,
Scan 7,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Bootsy Collins,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Bobby Womack,
Johnny Osbourne,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Kurtis Blow,
Toni Rubio,
Piero Umiliani,
Jeff Lynne,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Johnny Clarke,
Tubeway Army,
Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen.
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.