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 Dominica and from Copenhagen.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 David Bowie to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Icehouse. All the underground hits.
All The Buckinghams tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rufus Thomas record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 clarinet and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Easy Going record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Minutemen,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Gap Band,
The Vogues,
the Normal,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Grauzone,
Boogie Down Productions,
Magma,
The Birthday Party,
Glenn Branca,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Qualms,
Prince Buster,
Soulsonic Force,
Nick Fraelich,
This Heat,
Tres Demented,
Nirvana,
Roxette,
Brick,
Popol Vuh,
The Fuzztones,
Gichy Dan,
The Cramps,
The Moody Blues,
Rufus Thomas,
The Smoke,
Gerry Rafferty,
Alice Coltrane,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Faraquet,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Radiohead,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Dark Day,
Dave Gahan,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Moleskins,
Slave,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
the Sonics,
Cal Tjader,
Iggy Pop,
Mr. Review,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Juan Atkins,
The Sonics,
Derrick May,
The Seeds,
Dawn Penn,
Toni Rubio,
The Blues Magoos,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Mummies,
Von Mondo,
John Foxx,
Deepchord,
Monolake,
Motorama,
Flipper, Flipper, Flipper, Flipper.
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.