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 Romania and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 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 Harmonia to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Unwound. All the underground hits.
All Minutemen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every New Order record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Guru Guru record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sound Behaviour,
The Smoke,
Eddi Front,
Suicide,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Eric Dolphy,
Circle Jerks,
Juan Atkins,
Buzzcocks,
Quantec,
Tim Buckley,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Grey Daturas,
Tom Boy,
The Walker Brothers,
K-Klass,
The Flesh Eaters,
Aloha Tigers,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Amon Düül II,
Skarface,
Tomorrow,
Smog,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
John Cale,
Aaron Thompson,
Peter & Gordon,
Gang Green,
The Skatalites,
Q and Not U,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Charles Mingus,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
One Last Wish,
Cameo,
Malaria!,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
the Swans,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Crash Course in Science,
Man Parrish,
Rakim,
The Names,
Depeche Mode,
Dorothy Ashby,
Swell Maps,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Bang On A Can,
Lalo Schifrin,
Toni Rubio,
Sun City Girls,
The Pop Group,
Mantronix,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Warsaw,
Alice Coltrane,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Grauzone,
The Young Rascals,
The Doors,
The Invisible,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.