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 United States and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 Robert Palmer 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 Hashim to the dance kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Flipper. All the underground hits.
All DJ Style tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lucky Dragons 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Guru Guru record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jacques Brel,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Cameo,
Piero Umiliani,
Yazoo,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Pere Ubu,
Brothers Johnson,
New Order,
DJ Sneak,
Pylon,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Young Rascals,
The Dead C,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
LL Cool J,
The Motions,
Saccharine Trust,
Soulsonic Force,
Bush Tetras,
Glambeats Corp.,
Pussy Galore,
Cheater Slicks,
Brand Nubian,
The Remains,
Aural Exciters,
The Tremeloes,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Durutti Column,
Bang On A Can,
L. Decosne,
Japan,
Warsaw,
Alison Limerick,
Mr. Review,
Iggy Pop,
Harpers Bizarre,
Deadbeat,
DNA,
Faust,
Gerry Rafferty,
Icehouse,
The New Christs,
Groovy Waters,
Dave Gahan,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Echospace,
Spoonie Gee,
The Names,
Jeru the Damaja,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Stockholm Monsters,
Lou Christie,
Dennis Brown,
Freddie Wadling,
Sun Ra,
Be Bop Deluxe,
MDC,
Depeche Mode,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Oneida,
Eddi Front,
Cluster,
Adolescents, Adolescents, Adolescents, Adolescents.
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.