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 East Timor and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 Spokane and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks to the punk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Kaleidoscope. All the underground hits.
All The Misunderstood tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dark Day record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 chamberlin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Television Personalities record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Girls At Our Best!,
Mars,
Quantec,
Isaac Hayes,
Henry Cow,
Scrapy,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Sällskapet,
Electric Prunes,
Hasil Adkins,
the Human League,
Tres Demented,
Ultimate Spinach,
ABC,
Colin Newman,
Ossler,
EPMD,
Lower 48,
Television Personalities,
Das Ding,
A Certain Ratio,
Mandrill,
X-102,
The Move,
Gichy Dan,
Monks,
Marine Girls,
Barbara Tucker,
Au Pairs,
Robert Görl,
Sly & The Family Stone,
New Order,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Saints,
Procol Harum,
Jesper Dahlback,
Talk Talk,
Amon Düül II,
Tears for Fears,
Amazonics,
The Detroit Cobras,
Pierre Henry,
Heaven 17,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Jacques Brel,
Yellowson,
The Grass Roots,
Supertramp,
These Immortal Souls,
The Alarm Clocks,
World's Most,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Kenny Larkin,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Camberwell Now,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Reuben Wilson,
Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs.
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.