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 Mozambique and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 Michael McDonald 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 The Pretty Things to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Tropical Tobacco. All the underground hits.
All Mary Jane Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camouflage record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 linndrum and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Major Organ And The Adding Machine record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Chris Corsano,
Kool Moe Dee,
New Order,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Rotary Connection,
Clear Light,
Arab on Radar,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Brothers Johnson,
The Blackbyrds,
Kas Product,
The Grass Roots,
Slick Rick,
T. Rex,
Pole,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
K-Klass,
Minutemen,
Ludus,
48th St. Collective,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Fall,
The Last Poets,
Black Pus,
Aaron Thompson,
Jeru the Damaja,
Blancmange,
Joyce Sims,
Avey Tare,
Al Stewart,
Sonic Youth,
Peter and Kerry,
Stiv Bators,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Can,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
One Last Wish,
Spandau Ballet,
Echospace,
The Leaves,
Camberwell Now,
Lyres,
Stetsasonic,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Smoke,
Amon Düül II,
Throbbing Gristle,
Angry Samoans,
a-ha,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Sandy B,
Pantaleimon,
Bauhaus,
Flipper,
X-Ray Spex,
Organ,
Hoover,
Sällskapet,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Little Man, Little Man, Little Man, Little Man.
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.