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 Israel and from Salvador.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Eric Dolphy to the electroclash 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 Mandrill. All the underground hits.
All Barrington Levy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Girls At Our Best! record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Robert Görl record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Panda Bear,
Todd Rundgren,
Schoolly D,
The Motions,
Terry Callier,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Excepter,
Franke,
U.S. Maple,
La Düsseldorf,
Fela Kuti,
The Fuzztones,
Sound Behaviour,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Brick,
Half Japanese,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Quadrant,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Victims,
Television Personalities,
Electric Prunes,
Bad Manners,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Crispian St. Peters,
Grauzone,
Anakelly,
cv313,
Anthony Braxton,
Kurtis Blow,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Joe Smooth,
Joy Division,
Alice Coltrane,
Barbara Tucker,
Youth Brigade,
Ultra Naté,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Smog,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Golliwogs,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Mo-Dettes,
Das Ding,
Aaron Thompson,
The Monochrome Set,
Beasts of Bourbon,
K-Klass,
PIL,
Supertramp,
Matthew Halsall,
Stockholm Monsters,
Banda Bassotti,
Archie Shepp,
the Germs,
Gerry Rafferty,
Quantec,
Clear Light,
Ponytail,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Human League, The Human League, The Human League, The Human League.
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.