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 Paraguay and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 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 Ohio Players to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 JFA. All the underground hits.
All The J.B.'s tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jeru the Damaja record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Sonics record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Derrick May,
John Holt,
Todd Terry,
Zapp,
Colin Newman,
Vainqueur,
Livin' Joy,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Motions,
Jimmy McGriff,
X-102,
John Foxx,
Eddi Front,
Pagans,
Kas Product,
Minor Threat,
Byron Stingily,
EPMD,
June Days,
Lakeside,
Wolf Eyes,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Crispy Ambulance,
Anakelly,
Smog,
Nik Kershaw,
The Searchers,
Quando Quango,
Charles Mingus,
OOIOO,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Supertramp,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Laurel Aitken,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Inner City,
Shuggie Otis,
Carl Craig,
The Blues Magoos,
Pantaleimon,
FM Einheit,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Q and Not U,
Lyres,
June of 44,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Radiopuhelimet,
Alison Limerick,
Quantec,
Nils Olav,
Marcia Griffiths,
Echospace,
Ultra Naté,
Marvin Gaye,
Donny Hathaway,
Iggy Pop,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Gun Club,
Blancmange,
Siglo XX,
Hasil Adkins, Hasil Adkins, Hasil Adkins, Hasil Adkins.
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.