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 Libya and from Lagos.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 marimba 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 Model 500 to the punk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 The Trojans. All the underground hits.
All Jeru the Damaja tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tears for Fears record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Shoche record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Remains,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Pantaleimon,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Stereo Dub,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Popol Vuh,
The Golliwogs,
Talk Talk,
Scratch Acid,
Motorama,
Donny Hathaway,
La Düsseldorf,
The Searchers,
Cybotron,
Lou Christie,
The Dirtbombs,
Gang Green,
X-102,
The Five Americans,
Clear Light,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Eric B and Rakim,
Man Eating Sloth,
Ultimate Spinach,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Inner City,
Cal Tjader,
Zero Boys,
Minor Threat,
James White and The Blacks,
Juan Atkins,
Blake Baxter,
Deakin,
FM Einheit,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Colin Newman,
Monks,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Ultravox,
Anthony Braxton,
Soft Machine,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Moleskins,
The Slackers,
The Electric Prunes,
Easy Going,
Public Image Ltd.,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Todd Rundgren,
Agent Orange,
Delta 5,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
10cc,
Rotary Connection,
Brass Construction,
Agitation Free,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Radiopuhelimet,
the Human League,
Jeff Lynne,
Smog,
The Monochrome Set,
JFA, JFA, JFA, JFA.
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.