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 Cambodia and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Kool Moe Dee to the grime 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 Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra. All the underground hits.
All KRS-One tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobby Hutcherson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 snare and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sad Lovers and Giants record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Steve Hackett,
Jesper Dahlback,
DJ Style,
The Move,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
cv313,
Gichy Dan,
The Velvet Underground,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Busters,
Angry Samoans,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Whodini,
John Lydon,
Quando Quango,
Isaac Hayes,
Stiv Bators,
Sound Behaviour,
Cluster,
Dawn Penn,
Bobby Sherman,
Black Bananas,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Depeche Mode,
Pere Ubu,
Deepchord,
Circle Jerks,
ABBA,
Pharoah Sanders,
Shuggie Otis,
Nik Kershaw,
Mandrill,
The Offenders,
Joensuu 1685,
Los Fastidios,
World's Most,
Susan Cadogan,
DJ Sneak,
The Gladiators,
The Divine Comedy,
K-Klass,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Tears for Fears,
Alton Ellis,
The Saints,
Rakim,
The Moody Blues,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Althea and Donna,
Saccharine Trust,
Prince Buster,
Tropical Tobacco,
Kevin Saunderson,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Trojans,
The Beau Brummels,
Rufus Thomas,
Man Parrish, Man Parrish, Man Parrish, Man Parrish.
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.