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 Denmark and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Mission of Burma to the crunk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Blake Baxter. All the underground hits.
All Country Joe & The Fish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mr. Review 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a guitar 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 sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
LL Cool J,
Sugar Minott,
Kerri Chandler,
MC5,
Sandy B,
Smog,
Yaz,
Jeff Lynne,
One Last Wish,
Jeff Mills,
Mars,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Reagan Youth,
Soft Machine,
The Pretty Things,
CMW,
Fifty Foot Hose,
This Heat,
Kevin Saunderson,
Dual Sessions,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Lower 48,
Eden Ahbez,
Nik Kershaw,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
DJ Style,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Nirvana,
Quantec,
Pussy Galore,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Toasters,
Joy Division,
Cluster,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Blancmange,
Lou Reed,
Todd Terry,
June of 44,
Suicide,
Television,
Lyres,
The Alarm Clocks,
Cal Tjader,
Pulsallama,
Joensuu 1685,
Connie Case,
Rufus Thomas,
Maurizio,
Crooked Eye,
Agent Orange,
Man Parrish,
Cameo,
Isaac Hayes,
Bobby Byrd,
The Sound,
The Happenings,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Khruangbin,
The Mummies,
Juan Atkins,
Theoretical Girls,
Brick, Brick, Brick, Brick.
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.