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 Andorra and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 spring reverb 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 Roger Hodgson to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Tres Demented. All the underground hits.
All Grandmaster Flash tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wolf Eyes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 guitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bootsy's Rubber Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Al Stewart,
Leonard Cohen,
Man Parrish,
Erasure,
Jeff Mills,
Boredoms,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Excepter,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Scion,
Ultra Naté,
The New Christs,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Real Kids,
The Cowsills,
Amazonics,
Severed Heads,
Sun Ra,
Ralphi Rosario,
Deepchord,
Mo-Dettes,
The Gap Band,
Warren Ellis,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Hoover,
Talk Talk,
Saccharine Trust,
Jeru the Damaja,
Faraquet,
Stetsasonic,
The Sound,
Lalo Schifrin,
Supertramp,
Sister Nancy,
The Pretty Things,
Henry Cow,
Gil Scott Heron,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
ABC,
Jawbox,
Lungfish,
Delta 5,
Rites of Spring,
Mantronix,
R.M.O.,
Von Mondo,
Slave,
Laurel Aitken,
T. Rex,
La Düsseldorf,
Isaac Hayes,
Sixth Finger,
Public Image Ltd.,
Cameo,
Technova,
CMW,
Ten City,
Rakim,
Peter and Kerry,
Hasil Adkins,
Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II.
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.