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 Ghana and from Cairo.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 arpeggiator 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 Ultramagnetic MC's to the rap kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Swell Maps. All the underground hits.
All Mo-Dettes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Henry Cow record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Black Sheep record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rod Modell,
Terry Callier,
New Order,
Joensuu 1685,
John Foxx,
Tommy Roe,
The Motions,
Jeff Lynne,
Blossom Toes,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Idris Muhammad,
a-ha,
Moebius,
Shuggie Otis,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Toasters,
Girls At Our Best!,
Be Bop Deluxe,
AZ,
Spandau Ballet,
Isaac Hayes,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Kayak,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Frankie Knuckles,
Technova,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Mummies,
Unwound,
Ralphi Rosario,
Minor Threat,
Aaron Thompson,
Mission of Burma,
Monolake,
Cabaret Voltaire,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Letta Mbulu,
Animal Collective,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Kas Product,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Gories,
R.M.O.,
Erykah Badu,
Hoover,
Lou Christie,
The Sonics,
MC5,
Easy Going,
Junior Murvin,
The Dead C,
Negative Approach,
B.T. Express,
Spoonie Gee,
X-102,
The Techniques,
These Immortal Souls,
The Doobie Brothers,
Massinfluence,
The United States of America,
A Certain Ratio,
Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal.
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.