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 Sri Lanka and from Tehran.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 June Days to the techno kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Roxette. All the underground hits.
All Sarah Menescal tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Man Parrish record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scan 7 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Robert Görl,
Agent Orange,
Warren Ellis,
A Certain Ratio,
Toni Rubio,
Derrick Morgan,
Clear Light,
The Kinks,
Minor Threat,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Gap Band,
The Offenders,
Rites of Spring,
The Seeds,
Kerrie Biddell,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Cheater Slicks,
Eurythmics,
Adolescents,
Ultravox,
Television Personalities,
Johnny Osbourne,
Whodini,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Sugar Minott,
Peter & Gordon,
Sarah Menescal,
Malaria!,
Yazoo,
U.S. Maple,
Pagans,
The Walker Brothers,
Public Image Ltd.,
UT,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Siglo XX,
Eden Ahbez,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Ossler,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Mojo Men,
Symarip,
Hardrive,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Stooges,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Soulsonic Force,
The Dead C,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Gerry Rafferty,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Moebius,
The Doors,
Ponytail,
Arthur Verocai,
Main Source,
The Black Dice,
Scratch Acid,
The Misunderstood,
The Music Machine, The Music Machine, The Music Machine, The Music Machine.
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.