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 Bahamas and from Bremen.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 clarinet 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 Moss Icon to the funk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Skaos. All the underground hits.
All Quantec tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gang Green 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter and Kerry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Curtis Mayfield,
Swans,
Angry Samoans,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Flash Fearless,
The Slackers,
Godley & Creme,
Ronan,
China Crisis,
Pantytec,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Morten Harket,
The Smoke,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Litter,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Fuzztones,
The Stooges,
Jeff Mills,
Michelle Simonal,
Can,
Ronnie Foster,
Don Cherry,
The Fall,
Rod Modell,
Suicide,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Ice-T,
Fear,
The Mojo Men,
Maurizio,
Absolute Body Control,
Mo-Dettes,
Swell Maps,
Pet Shop Boys,
Slave,
Country Teasers,
Electric Light Orchestra,
the Germs,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Idris Muhammad,
Quadrant,
Boredoms,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Urselle,
Mandrill,
Mary Jane Girls,
Skaos,
Joe Smooth,
Pole,
Hardrive,
Yazoo,
Erykah Badu,
Moss Icon,
Cecil Taylor,
Crime,
Ultravox,
The Blues Magoos,
X-102,
Al Stewart,
The Trojans,
Avey Tare,
Slick Rick, Slick Rick, Slick Rick, Slick Rick.
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.