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 Canada and from Calgary.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 Michael McDonald 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 Banda Bassotti to the funk 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 Quando Quango. All the underground hits.
All Gang Starr tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fuzztones record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Index,
Donny Hathaway,
Guru Guru,
Liliput,
Kayak,
Flash Fearless,
Con Funk Shun,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
the Germs,
kango's stein massive,
The Vogues,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Lakeside,
The Grass Roots,
Piero Umiliani,
Surgeon,
Khruangbin,
The Zeros,
Tres Demented,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Fad Gadget,
David Axelrod,
Ice-T,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Aloha Tigers,
Cybotron,
Black Flag,
This Heat,
The Knickerbockers,
The Cowsills,
FM Einheit,
Steve Hackett,
The Durutti Column,
Wire,
cv313,
Au Pairs,
Barclay James Harvest,
Eric Dolphy,
Pagans,
The Beau Brummels,
X-Ray Spex,
Ossler,
Fela Kuti,
Kerri Chandler,
World's Most,
Country Teasers,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Gories,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Visage,
A Certain Ratio,
Barry Ungar,
Neil Young,
Yazoo,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Scion,
Delta 5,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Cluster,
Infiniti,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.