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 Congo and from Jakarta.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 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 Drexciya to the electroclash 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 Joe Finger. All the underground hits.
All Make Up tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Das Ding record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Smiths record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Essential Logic,
Agitation Free,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
kango's stein massive,
The Fortunes,
Ken Boothe,
ABC,
Eric B and Rakim,
Carl Craig,
Average White Band,
Kerrie Biddell,
Fugazi,
The Fire Engines,
Marine Girls,
Parry Music,
Audionom,
Stockholm Monsters,
Slick Rick,
Cluster,
Soft Cell,
The Last Poets,
Scott Walker,
the Human League,
Wolf Eyes,
Drive Like Jehu,
Rapeman,
The Martian,
Japan,
Spandau Ballet,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Lalo Schifrin,
Bill Near,
The Flesh Eaters,
Wasted Youth,
Pulsallama,
B.T. Express,
Stiv Bators,
This Heat,
Gang of Four,
Quadrant,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Throbbing Gristle,
Andrew Hill,
Siglo XX,
The Invisible,
Second Layer,
Delta 5,
Iggy Pop,
Tim Buckley,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Pharoah Sanders,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Anakelly,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The New Christs,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
T. Rex,
Frankie Knuckles,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Prince Buster,
Black Moon, Black Moon, Black Moon, Black Moon.
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.