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 Panama and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Cairo.
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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the güiro 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 Soft Cell to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Eden Ahbez. All the underground hits.
All Swell Maps tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Derrick Morgan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 an arpeggiator and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Maurizio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pulsallama,
Marcia Griffiths,
Prince Buster,
The Tremeloes,
B.T. Express,
Nation of Ulysses,
Audionom,
Soul II Soul,
UT,
Mary Jane Girls,
Scion,
D'Angelo,
The Misunderstood,
Organ,
Ralphi Rosario,
Cymande,
Erykah Badu,
The Black Dice,
Eli Mardock,
Joey Negro,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Bill Near,
The Detroit Cobras,
Graham Central Station,
JFA,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Curtis Mayfield,
Magazine,
Pierre Henry,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
MC5,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Newcleus,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Ituana,
the Germs,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Alphaville,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Grandmaster Flash,
Eurythmics,
Bob Dylan,
Delon & Dalcan,
Echospace,
The Evens,
Brass Construction,
Soft Cell,
Interpol,
Maurizio,
Darondo,
Theoretical Girls,
Marmalade,
Skriet,
Loose Ends,
Youth Brigade,
The Fall,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Amon Düül II,
Jimmy McGriff,
Jandek,
Siglo XX, Siglo XX, Siglo XX, Siglo XX.
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.