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 Ireland 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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 harpsichord 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 Zapp to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Todd Terry. All the underground hits.
All Nils Olav tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter and Kerry 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Country Teasers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
FM Einheit,
John Lydon,
the Normal,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Black Moon,
Chrome,
Charles Mingus,
Quantec,
Mo-Dettes,
Vladislav Delay,
The Grass Roots,
A Certain Ratio,
Byron Stingily,
Slick Rick,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Slits,
Echospace,
Theoretical Girls,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
the Sonics,
The Skatalites,
The Velvet Underground,
Bronski Beat,
Motorama,
10cc,
The Searchers,
Niagra,
The Star Department,
Gil Scott Heron,
Outsiders,
Jeff Mills,
Bobby Byrd,
Gerry Rafferty,
Camouflage,
Faraquet,
Banda Bassotti,
T.S.O.L.,
Quando Quango,
Gang Green,
The New Christs,
Main Source,
Second Layer,
The Five Americans,
Public Enemy,
One Last Wish,
F. McDonald,
Desert Stars,
Peter & Gordon,
The Dave Clark Five,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Jandek,
Bobby Womack,
DJ Style,
Scan 7,
Popol Vuh,
Urselle,
Thee Headcoats,
The Slackers,
Deepchord,
Crispian St. Peters,
Nico,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Doors, The Doors, The Doors, The Doors.
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.