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 Jordan and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 rhodes 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 Jawbox 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 Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra. All the underground hits.
All Lou Reed & John Cale tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobbi Humphrey record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a In Retrospect record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter & Gordon,
Toni Rubio,
The Sonics,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Metal Thangz,
The Saints,
Piero Umiliani,
Scan 7,
Agitation Free,
Bootsy Collins,
Skaos,
Aswad,
Ohio Players,
Eve St. Jones,
Don Cherry,
Jandek,
Susan Cadogan,
Ludus,
the Slits,
Arcadia,
Bush Tetras,
Faust,
The United States of America,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Newcleus,
Lou Christie,
Public Enemy,
Parry Music,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Monks,
E-Dancer,
June Days,
Michelle Simonal,
Ornette Coleman,
The Music Machine,
Alison Limerick,
Donny Hathaway,
Q65,
Chris & Cosey,
Sound Behaviour,
Joey Negro,
Mission of Burma,
Godley & Creme,
Sex Pistols,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Deakin,
Spoonie Gee,
Mandrill,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Misunderstood,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Desert Stars,
Y Pants,
Scion,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Slave,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Associates,
Sixth Finger,
Flash Fearless,
Funkadelic, Funkadelic, Funkadelic, Funkadelic.
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.