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 Senegal and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic 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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Franke to the grunge kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Gerry Rafferty. All the underground hits.
All Magazine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cabaret Voltaire 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a kango's stein massive record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Traffic Nightmare,
Peter & Gordon,
Hardrive,
Cluster,
Ronnie Foster,
T. Rex,
The Neon Judgement,
Black Flag,
Alphaville,
Sonny Sharrock,
Quantec,
Archie Shepp,
Minutemen,
Pet Shop Boys,
Lou Christie,
Harmonia,
Agitation Free,
Pantaleimon,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Terry Callier,
Lakeside,
Glambeats Corp.,
Jacob Miller,
Eve St. Jones,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
KRS-One,
Susan Cadogan,
Cybotron,
Groovy Waters,
JFA,
The Velvet Underground,
Davy DMX,
The Red Krayola,
the Association,
Roy Ayers,
Adolescents,
the Sonics,
Reuben Wilson,
The Mojo Men,
Intrusion,
Ice-T,
Gabor Szabo,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Banda Bassotti,
Sound Behaviour,
Soul II Soul,
Aswad,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Last Poets,
Idris Muhammad,
Joyce Sims,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Delta 5,
Alison Limerick,
Visage,
Rekid,
Rod Modell,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Pulsallama,
Wasted Youth,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Simply Red, Simply Red, Simply Red, Simply Red.
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.