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 Congo and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Funky Four + One to the grunge 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 Reuben Wilson. All the underground hits.
All Grauzone tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Black Pus record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delon & Dalcan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Stockholm Monsters,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Warren Ellis,
Soulsonic Force,
Gabor Szabo,
David Axelrod,
Pantytec,
Section 25,
The Zeros,
Nico,
Amon Düül II,
Ronan,
Niagra,
Pere Ubu,
The Human League,
Von Mondo,
Lucky Dragons,
The Fuzztones,
Grandmaster Flash,
Peter & Gordon,
Magma,
New Order,
Man Eating Sloth,
a-ha,
Thee Headcoats,
Easy Going,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
World's Most,
The Monochrome Set,
June of 44,
Todd Rundgren,
Letta Mbulu,
The Beau Brummels,
Metal Thangz,
Laurel Aitken,
Mo-Dettes,
The Neon Judgement,
MDC,
Flamin' Groovies,
Jacques Brel,
Lou Reed,
Sound Behaviour,
Leonard Cohen,
Sixth Finger,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Slackers,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Bill Near,
Gregory Isaacs,
cv313,
The Skatalites,
Terrestrial Tones,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Theoretical Girls,
Maurizio,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Pierre Henry,
DNA,
This Heat,
Goldenarms,
Joey Negro,
The Knickerbockers, The Knickerbockers, The Knickerbockers, The Knickerbockers.
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.