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 Mauritania and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 Holger Czukay 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 Vladislav Delay to the disco 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 Warren Ellis. All the underground hits.
All The Music Machine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Skatalites record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 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 Eden Ahbez record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Con Funk Shun,
The Gap Band,
Von Mondo,
Rufus Thomas,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Shoche,
Barrington Levy,
Funkadelic,
Franke,
China Crisis,
Essential Logic,
Joe Smooth,
Maleditus Sound,
The United States of America,
Ralphi Rosario,
Joe Finger,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Cybotron,
Prince Buster,
Saccharine Trust,
Subhumans,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Blossom Toes,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Zapp,
The Techniques,
Moby Grape,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Jesper Dahlback,
Magma,
Colin Newman,
Au Pairs,
Cal Tjader,
Iggy Pop,
Rosa Yemen,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Liliput,
Bobby Sherman,
Altered Images,
Gil Scott Heron,
Archie Shepp,
Minor Threat,
John Foxx,
Eve St. Jones,
Clear Light,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Roy Ayers,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
the Soft Cell,
Todd Terry,
Duran Duran,
Moss Icon,
The Dirtbombs,
The Pretty Things,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Dave Clark Five,
T. Rex,
Silicon Teens,
The Velvet Underground,
Spoonie Gee,
Echospace,
The Detroit Cobras,
Kaleidoscope, Kaleidoscope, Kaleidoscope, Kaleidoscope.
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.