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 Trinidad & Tobago and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and New York.
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 Scan 7 to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Mo-Dettes. All the underground hits.
All Joensuu 1685 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Inner City record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Underground Resistance record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobbi Humphrey,
Peter & Gordon,
Harmonia,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Standells,
Godley & Creme,
Quadrant,
Leonard Cohen,
The Smiths,
Skriet,
Fluxion,
The Pop Group,
Second Layer,
Dark Day,
The Dead C,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Gun Club,
The Neon Judgement,
Slave,
Wolf Eyes,
Ken Boothe,
Matthew Halsall,
H. Thieme,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Pole,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Skatalites,
Harpers Bizarre,
Sixth Finger,
Jawbox,
Sun Ra,
Surgeon,
Charles Mingus,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Scion,
Nils Olav,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
the Association,
Ornette Coleman,
Bang On A Can,
The Slits,
Lou Christie,
ABBA,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Bobby Byrd,
the Bar-Kays,
Danielle Patucci,
Youth Brigade,
Mo-Dettes,
Buzzcocks,
Kerri Chandler,
Mission of Burma,
Aaron Thompson,
Bill Near,
Siglo XX,
The Names,
Underground Resistance,
Todd Terry, Todd Terry, Todd Terry, Todd Terry.
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.