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 Tuvalu and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Rotary Connection to the rap kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 The Grass Roots. All the underground hits.
All EPMD tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Association record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Circle Jerks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Barbara Tucker,
Altered Images,
Technova,
the Germs,
Peter and Kerry,
Joy Division,
Radio Birdman,
Livin' Joy,
Neu!,
Sister Nancy,
Blancmange,
U.S. Maple,
Yazoo,
Funky Four + One,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Bobbi Humphrey,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Man Eating Sloth,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Clear Light,
Darondo,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
La Düsseldorf,
The Beau Brummels,
Rotary Connection,
Television Personalities,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Wings,
Gichy Dan,
Sam Rivers,
Silicon Teens,
Skarface,
Black Moon,
Average White Band,
Infiniti,
Sparks,
The Skatalites,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Dave Gahan,
The Leaves,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Residents,
Fad Gadget,
Connie Case,
Mr. Review,
Robert Wyatt,
Television,
Marine Girls,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Grass Roots,
Terrestrial Tones,
Girls At Our Best!,
Slave,
Kevin Saunderson,
Neil Young,
Model 500,
Jerry's Kids,
June of 44,
The Techniques,
MC5,
Camouflage,
The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor.
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.