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 Kosovo and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 Lou Reed 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 Rotary Connection to the funk 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 UT. All the underground hits.
All Clear Light tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Robert Hood 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 an arpeggiator and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Donny Hathaway record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gang Starr,
Soft Cell,
The Gories,
Anakelly,
Sex Pistols,
Jesper Dahlback,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Quando Quango,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Doors,
La Düsseldorf,
Albert Ayler,
James Chance & The Contortions,
L. Decosne,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Slackers,
Black Pus,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Modern Lovers,
Marcia Griffiths,
Groovy Waters,
Steve Hackett,
Schoolly D,
Maleditus Sound,
Kurtis Blow,
Scan 7,
Magma,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Searchers,
Tears for Fears,
The Techniques,
DJ Sneak,
Easy Going,
Motorama,
Lindisfarne,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Grauzone,
Brothers Johnson,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Sister Nancy,
Monolake,
Mo-Dettes,
Lou Christie,
Boredoms,
New Age Steppers,
Erasure,
John Holt,
Scratch Acid,
Aloha Tigers,
The Buckinghams,
Sun City Girls,
Black Sheep,
Judy Mowatt,
Chrome,
LL Cool J,
Mission of Burma,
Aural Exciters,
Ultimate Spinach,
Cal Tjader,
Wally Richardson,
The Victims,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson.
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.