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 Malawi and from Bologna.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Bologna.
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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Zapp to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Audionom. All the underground hits.
All Pantytec tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Human League record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Siouxsie and the Banshees record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Residents,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Model 500,
The Neon Judgement,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Pantytec,
Bobby Byrd,
Gastr Del Sol,
cv313,
Grandmaster Flash,
Pylon,
Anthony Braxton,
Jeru the Damaja,
Drive Like Jehu,
Arthur Verocai,
Scientists,
Alton Ellis,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Aural Exciters,
Lucky Dragons,
Freddie Wadling,
The Litter,
Zapp,
Essential Logic,
Das Ding,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Todd Rundgren,
Circle Jerks,
Danielle Patucci,
Negative Approach,
Massinfluence,
Crooked Eye,
Ken Boothe,
Scott Walker,
Adolescents,
The Monochrome Set,
Radiohead,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Arab on Radar,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
the Slits,
Infiniti,
Steve Hackett,
The Vogues,
Excepter,
Scan 7,
Cymande,
Gang of Four,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Zeros,
Skriet,
Spandau Ballet,
Dave Gahan,
Cal Tjader,
Soft Cell,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Angels of Light,
Joensuu 1685,
the Association,
Don Cherry,
Stiv Bators,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Ultramagnetic MC's, Ultramagnetic MC's, Ultramagnetic MC's, Ultramagnetic MC's.
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.