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 Hungary and from Madrid.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 808 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 The Gap Band to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 The American Breed. All the underground hits.
All Hasil Adkins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Justin Hinds & The Dominoes 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gary Puckett & The Union Gap record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rhythm & Sound,
Harry Pussy,
Nik Kershaw,
Crooked Eye,
Derrick Morgan,
K-Klass,
Brass Construction,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Ken Boothe,
Radiohead,
Sonny Sharrock,
Jandek,
Archie Shepp,
Inner City,
Sonic Youth,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Vladislav Delay,
Skarface,
Gabor Szabo,
The Martian,
Traffic Nightmare,
Absolute Body Control,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Velvet Underground,
Anthony Braxton,
Ornette Coleman,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Audionom,
Hasil Adkins,
the Sonics,
Yusef Lateef,
The Evens,
The Red Krayola,
Eurythmics,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Buzzcocks,
Black Flag,
The Cure,
Kerrie Biddell,
Delon & Dalcan,
Lower 48,
Wasted Youth,
Laurel Aitken,
Popol Vuh,
Boz Scaggs,
Robert Hood,
Donald Byrd,
Mission of Burma,
Sun City Girls,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Human League,
Moby Grape,
Schoolly D,
Gregory Isaacs,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Connie Case,
Motorama,
Young Marble Giants,
Surgeon,
Alice Coltrane,
Robert Görl, Robert Görl, Robert Görl, Robert Görl.
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.