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 Norway and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Arthur Verocai to the funk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Visage. All the underground hits.
All The Happenings tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yazoo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 güiro and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Human League record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Human League,
KRS-One,
Delon & Dalcan,
Connie Case,
Lebanon Hanover,
Mo-Dettes,
Neil Young,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Lalo Schifrin,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Con Funk Shun,
Sugar Minott,
the Germs,
Theoretical Girls,
Robert Hood,
Minutemen,
Don Cherry,
The Monochrome Set,
The Smoke,
Soulsonic Force,
Todd Terry,
Brass Construction,
cv313,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
the Fania All-Stars,
Pantytec,
Gastr Del Sol,
Jeru the Damaja,
Ken Boothe,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Throbbing Gristle,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Stereo Dub,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Buckinghams,
Adolescents,
Zapp,
Josef K,
CMW,
Gil Scott Heron,
Clear Light,
The Pretty Things,
Vainqueur,
Al Stewart,
Mark Hollis,
One Last Wish,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Gap Band,
Agitation Free,
Monolake,
Marmalade,
Tomorrow,
Cluster,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Names,
Barry Ungar,
The Sonics,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Ralphi Rosario,
Young Marble Giants, Young Marble Giants, Young Marble Giants, Young Marble Giants.
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.