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 China and from Salvador.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Lyon.
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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Ludus to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Public Enemy. All the underground hits.
All Eurythmics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lyres record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ten City record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Jeff Lynne,
Mantronix,
Funky Four + One,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Vladislav Delay,
Visage,
Kerri Chandler,
Jerry's Kids,
Derrick May,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Warren Ellis,
the Human League,
Harmonia,
Laurel Aitken,
The Sonics,
Radiohead,
Nils Olav,
Minny Pops,
Bootsy Collins,
Alice Coltrane,
Suicide,
Panda Bear,
Neu!,
Loose Ends,
Connie Case,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Evens,
The Associates,
Depeche Mode,
Moss Icon,
Camberwell Now,
The Techniques,
Barry Ungar,
Lyres,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Donny Hathaway,
Davy DMX,
Second Layer,
The Names,
Liliput,
Duran Duran,
Circle Jerks,
Sun Ra,
Blake Baxter,
Charles Mingus,
The Blackbyrds,
Fat Boys,
Mission of Burma,
Gang Starr,
Los Fastidios,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Donald Byrd,
Inner City,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Ossler,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Moebius,
Trumans Water,
Judy Mowatt,
The Black Dice,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Slackers, The Slackers, The Slackers, The Slackers.
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.