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 Bosnia Herzegovina and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 chamberlin 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 Boogie Down Productions to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Deepchord. All the underground hits.
All OOIOO tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yaz record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Electric Prunes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Residents,
H. Thieme,
PIL,
Cluster,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Chrome,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Harpers Bizarre,
Lungfish,
Crispian St. Peters,
Lebanon Hanover,
Scott Walker,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
La Düsseldorf,
The Fortunes,
Pantytec,
Sister Nancy,
Erykah Badu,
Michelle Simonal,
Rhythm & Sound,
Icehouse,
Young Marble Giants,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Vogues,
The Sound,
Aural Exciters,
Simply Red,
Minnie Riperton,
Junior Murvin,
Soulsonic Force,
Barclay James Harvest,
Morten Harket,
June Days,
Ultimate Spinach,
The New Christs,
The Dead C,
Adolescents,
DJ Sneak,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Bluetip,
Sugar Minott,
Arthur Verocai,
Marmalade,
Yusef Lateef,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Letta Mbulu,
Blancmange,
Kerri Chandler,
Bobby Byrd,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Fela Kuti,
The Buckinghams,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Lou Reed,
Ten City,
Jeru the Damaja,
Supertramp,
Glenn Branca,
Oblivians,
Marine Girls,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Monochrome Set,
Selector Dub Narcotic, Selector Dub Narcotic, Selector Dub Narcotic, Selector Dub Narcotic.
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.