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 Italy and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 Robert Palmer 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 Sight & Sound to the rap kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx. All the underground hits.
All Charles Mingus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Icehouse record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Parry Music record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Moody Blues,
Alphaville,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Sugar Minott,
Grandmaster Flash,
Alton Ellis,
Marshall Jefferson,
Scratch Acid,
Amon Düül,
Livin' Joy,
Freddie Wadling,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Juan Atkins,
Brass Construction,
Young Marble Giants,
Godley & Creme,
Gastr Del Sol,
Magazine,
Sixth Finger,
Panda Bear,
a-ha,
Sound Behaviour,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Delon & Dalcan,
Rotary Connection,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Excepter,
Public Image Ltd.,
Cluster,
Silicon Teens,
Soul Sonic Force,
Radiopuhelimet,
Robert Wyatt,
Boogie Down Productions,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Saints,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Magma,
Wire,
Don Cherry,
The Evens,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Slick Rick,
Country Teasers,
Glambeats Corp.,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Skatalites,
Al Stewart,
Saccharine Trust,
In Retrospect,
Sonic Youth,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Mandrill,
Outsiders,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Kerrie Biddell,
Icehouse,
Angry Samoans,
Zero Boys,
Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot.
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.