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 Ukraine and from Shanghai.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 808 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 Drive Like Jehu to the techno 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 Newcleus. All the underground hits.
All Groovy Waters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bizarre Inc. 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sandy B record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Yellowson,
Gabor Szabo,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
10cc,
Nas,
The Dave Clark Five,
Kool Moe Dee,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Raincoats,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Janne Schatter,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Adolescents,
Hot Snakes,
Anakelly,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Ponytail,
Hardrive,
Thompson Twins,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
In Retrospect,
Johnny Clarke,
Drive Like Jehu,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
John Holt,
Radio Birdman,
the Fania All-Stars,
Brick,
Pierre Henry,
The Residents,
Steve Hackett,
Arthur Verocai,
Delta 5,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Evens,
Yaz,
Alison Limerick,
Ultra Naté,
Absolute Body Control,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
X-102,
Bobby Byrd,
June Days,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
China Crisis,
Sister Nancy,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Radiopuhelimet,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Davy DMX,
Lou Christie,
Sugar Minott,
Popol Vuh,
Hoover,
The Cramps,
Morten Harket,
Stockholm Monsters,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade, Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade, Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade, Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade.
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.