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 Nauru and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Soul Sonic Force to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Cal Tjader. All the underground hits.
All Royal Trux tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Barracudas 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 theremin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eli Mardock record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Morten Harket,
The Seeds,
Jesper Dahlback,
Scott Walker,
The Alarm Clocks,
Bluetip,
Echospace,
Underground Resistance,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Pierre Henry,
The Gap Band,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Roxette,
Nico,
Procol Harum,
The Moody Blues,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Pop Group,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Neu!,
Slave,
The Moleskins,
Dead Boys,
Gang of Four,
The Shadows of Knight,
Lou Reed,
Gregory Isaacs,
Black Moon,
The Sound,
Joensuu 1685,
James White and The Blacks,
Masters at Work,
Brass Construction,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Con Funk Shun,
Oblivians,
Sister Nancy,
Quadrant,
The Raincoats,
Thee Headcoats,
Rosa Yemen,
Charles Mingus,
Qualms,
Patti Smith,
Lower 48,
Animal Collective,
Skarface,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Althea and Donna,
Thompson Twins,
Tim Buckley,
The Divine Comedy,
Nation of Ulysses,
Black Sheep,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Technova,
Radiopuhelimet,
Sarah Menescal,
KRS-One,
Marvin Gaye, Marvin Gaye, Marvin Gaye, Marvin Gaye.
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.