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 East Timor and from Woodstock.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Calgary.
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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Model 500 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 Lucky Dragons. All the underground hits.
All Barry Ungar tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Black Flag 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delta 5 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Glenn Branca,
The Selecter,
Gil Scott Heron,
Rapeman,
The Angels of Light,
Morten Harket,
New Order,
Sparks,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The J.B.'s,
Girls At Our Best!,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Franke,
The Grass Roots,
Black Flag,
Brothers Johnson,
Aural Exciters,
Groovy Waters,
Jimmy McGriff,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Skaos,
Anakelly,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Section 25,
Essential Logic,
Monks,
Mo-Dettes,
the Germs,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Gichy Dan,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Neu!,
Adolescents,
DNA,
Barclay James Harvest,
Chris & Cosey,
The Human League,
Deadbeat,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Lyres,
Albert Ayler,
Blossom Toes,
Gang of Four,
Peter and Kerry,
Talk Talk,
Lou Christie,
Alton Ellis,
the Slits,
The Invisible,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Quando Quango,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Associates,
Don Cherry,
Marmalade,
Whodini,
Man Parrish,
Quantec,
The Saints,
Rekid,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu.
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.