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 Mauritius and from Salvador.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the snare 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 Kool G Rap & DJ Polo to the disco 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 Intrusion. All the underground hits.
All Marc Almond tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scan 7 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sarah Menescal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Scion,
The Names,
Nik Kershaw,
Alphaville,
Sight & Sound,
Nico,
Flash Fearless,
Brick,
Dawn Penn,
Ossler,
Second Layer,
Bob Dylan,
Glenn Branca,
Aural Exciters,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Nirvana,
Pere Ubu,
Gastr Del Sol,
Hardrive,
Stetsasonic,
The Stooges,
The Slackers,
The Victims,
X-Ray Spex,
Marmalade,
La Düsseldorf,
Pharoah Sanders,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
T. Rex,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Litter,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Jimmy McGriff,
Monolake,
Simply Red,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Technova,
Swell Maps,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
the Germs,
Be Bop Deluxe,
A Certain Ratio,
Radiohead,
Harmonia,
Arcadia,
Visage,
Bill Near,
Bizarre Inc.,
Charles Mingus,
The Dirtbombs,
Sparks,
The Real Kids,
Boz Scaggs,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Gang Gang Dance,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Human League,
Ornette Coleman, Ornette Coleman, Ornette Coleman, Ornette Coleman.
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.