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 Fiji and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 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 Lou Reed to the techno 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 Dennis Brown. All the underground hits.
All Jerry Gold Smith tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scion 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Man Parrish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gregory Isaacs,
Mandrill,
John Coltrane,
Spoonie Gee,
The New Christs,
K-Klass,
The Seeds,
Curtis Mayfield,
Scan 7,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Jacques Brel,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Gories,
Barclay James Harvest,
Dawn Penn,
Sound Behaviour,
Clear Light,
Rod Modell,
David Axelrod,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
the Fania All-Stars,
Jeru the Damaja,
Simply Red,
Alice Coltrane,
X-Ray Spex,
Motorama,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Soul II Soul,
In Retrospect,
Underground Resistance,
Mars,
Sight & Sound,
Cymande,
John Lydon,
Hot Snakes,
Danielle Patucci,
Shoche,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Barracudas,
Kayak,
the Soft Cell,
The Golliwogs,
Gang Green,
Henry Cow,
Zapp,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Black Moon,
Matthew Bourne,
Young Marble Giants,
The Fall,
Joe Smooth,
The Gun Club,
Kevin Saunderson,
Ice-T,
The Blues Magoos,
The Divine Comedy,
Public Enemy,
Pierre Henry,
Gabor Szabo, Gabor Szabo, Gabor Szabo, Gabor Szabo.
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.