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 Niger and from Philadelphia.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Heavy D & The Boyz to the rap 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 Lalo Schifrin. All the underground hits.
All Manfred Mann's Earth Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Chocolate Watch Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Golliwogs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Human League,
Gichy Dan,
The Searchers,
Black Sheep,
Hot Snakes,
Rotary Connection,
the Slits,
F. McDonald,
Faraquet,
Eden Ahbez,
Jacques Brel,
Sonny Sharrock,
Lyres,
The Gap Band,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Youth Brigade,
Depeche Mode,
La Düsseldorf,
CMW,
Connie Case,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Blackbyrds,
Bush Tetras,
Wolf Eyes,
Gang Green,
Big Daddy Kane,
Alton Ellis,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Carl Craig,
Subhumans,
Tubeway Army,
Funky Four + One,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Marvin Gaye,
Fugazi,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Tres Demented,
Mr. Review,
Con Funk Shun,
The Count Five,
Peter and Kerry,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Last Poets,
Bad Manners,
Rekid,
David Axelrod,
Neil Young,
Minutemen,
Peter & Gordon,
Monolake,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Babytalk,
cv313,
Icehouse,
Moss Icon,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Mummies,
Bluetip,
Symarip,
Aural Exciters,
The Sound,
Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force.
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.