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 Latvia and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 Woodstock and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Sugar Minott to the jazz 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 Can. All the underground hits.
All The Barracudas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Vainqueur record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Adolescents,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Silicon Teens,
Fugazi,
Grey Daturas,
Moebius,
Lebanon Hanover,
Jandek,
Rosa Yemen,
Average White Band,
Eric B and Rakim,
H. Thieme,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Tres Demented,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Bush Tetras,
EPMD,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Girls At Our Best!,
Yaz,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Main Source,
David Bowie,
The Standells,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Surgeon,
The Doobie Brothers,
Crash Course in Science,
The Young Rascals,
The Selecter,
Johnny Clarke,
Franke,
The Monochrome Set,
Drexciya,
Marcia Griffiths,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Deakin,
Ken Boothe,
B.T. Express,
Pole,
Bobby Sherman,
Echospace,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Prince Buster,
The Five Americans,
The Associates,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Radiohead,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Sonics,
Gil Scott Heron,
Public Enemy,
Arcadia,
Tears for Fears,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Scientists,
The Toasters,
The Smoke, The Smoke, The Smoke, The Smoke.
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.