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 Peru and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Deakin to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Main Source. All the underground hits.
All Skriet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Unrelated Segments record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 mellotron and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Swell Maps record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Cure,
Scientists,
Althea and Donna,
Sällskapet,
Slave,
Mars,
Chris & Cosey,
The Seeds,
The Associates,
Graham Central Station,
Fatback Band,
Joey Negro,
Cameo,
The Blues Magoos,
The Raincoats,
June Days,
Interpol,
Kayak,
Gabor Szabo,
John Cale,
Soft Machine,
The Real Kids,
cv313,
Soulsonic Force,
The Evens,
The Dirtbombs,
Kevin Saunderson,
Jeff Mills,
Minutemen,
Jandek,
Gregory Isaacs,
Procol Harum,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Yazoo,
The Fortunes,
The Busters,
Guru Guru,
Mad Mike,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Crispian St. Peters,
Echospace,
the Bar-Kays,
Prince Buster,
Cybotron,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Quadrant,
Moebius,
Lakeside,
James Chance & The Contortions,
UT,
Black Moon,
Marc Almond,
Traffic Nightmare,
Simply Red,
Sexual Harrassment,
Warsaw,
Skaos,
Gastr Del Sol,
MDC,
Sight & Sound,
The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band.
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.