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 Mongolia and from Woodstock.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Taipei.
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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Carl Craig to the grunge 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 Tres Demented. All the underground hits.
All Andrew Hill tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Carl Craig record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 a rhodes and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gastr Del Sol record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
London Community Gospel Choir,
Gang Starr,
10cc,
Average White Band,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Velvet Underground,
The Detroit Cobras,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Dorothy Ashby,
Interpol,
Juan Atkins,
Man Eating Sloth,
Marc Almond,
Lower 48,
Shuggie Otis,
The Sound,
the Human League,
Lalann,
Rotary Connection,
John Lydon,
Buzzcocks,
Icehouse,
Clear Light,
Sonny Sharrock,
Zapp,
Soul II Soul,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Victims,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Pantytec,
Throbbing Gristle,
PIL,
Marmalade,
Television Personalities,
Boredoms,
Amazonics,
Ice-T,
Albert Ayler,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Maleditus Sound,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Seeds,
Mark Hollis,
Rakim,
Angry Samoans,
Chrome,
Robert Wyatt,
Delta 5,
Bobby Sherman,
Piero Umiliani,
The Barracudas,
Silicon Teens,
a-ha,
The Misunderstood,
Absolute Body Control,
Iggy Pop,
Janne Schatter,
DJ Sneak,
Schoolly D,
Pulsallama,
The Alarm Clocks, The Alarm Clocks, The Alarm Clocks, The Alarm Clocks.
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.