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 Madagascar and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Anakelly to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Alphaville. All the underground hits.
All Wire tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alton Ellis 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jeru the Damaja record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jesper Dahlback,
Essential Logic,
Crooked Eye,
Popol Vuh,
Crash Course in Science,
The Golliwogs,
The Black Dice,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Stiv Bators,
L. Decosne,
The Slits,
Bauhaus,
The Human League,
Main Source,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Rakim,
Isaac Hayes,
The Fuzztones,
Chrome,
OOIOO,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Camouflage,
Easy Going,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Blossom Toes,
Smog,
Von Mondo,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Fear,
Yellowson,
Joy Division,
Oneida,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Brothers Johnson,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Motions,
Roy Ayers,
Patti Smith,
Harry Pussy,
Alphaville,
John Cale,
Groovy Waters,
Moebius,
Faraquet,
Tres Demented,
Soft Machine,
kango's stein massive,
Boogie Down Productions,
Joey Negro,
Deadbeat,
Grauzone,
John Foxx,
Yaz,
Matthew Halsall,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Eden Ahbez,
Minnie Riperton,
Radiohead,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud.
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.