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 Suriname and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 arpeggiator 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 Simply Red to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Jesper Dahlbäck. All the underground hits.
All Zapp tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wolf Eyes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 marimba and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joe Smooth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lalann,
Average White Band,
Ronan,
Dennis Brown,
Clear Light,
Andrew Hill,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Pantytec,
Rufus Thomas,
Scratch Acid,
The Fugs,
Icehouse,
Glambeats Corp.,
Anthony Braxton,
The Grass Roots,
Tim Buckley,
Lucky Dragons,
Young Marble Giants,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Severed Heads,
Nas,
Vladislav Delay,
Harmonia,
Dual Sessions,
The Busters,
Nick Fraelich,
R.M.O.,
Los Fastidios,
This Heat,
Model 500,
The Skatalites,
Eurythmics,
the Swans,
The Fall,
Donald Byrd,
Curtis Mayfield,
Babytalk,
The Raincoats,
Chris Corsano,
James Chance & The Contortions,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
John Holt,
Can,
Simply Red,
Robert Görl,
Blake Baxter,
The Pop Group,
Fatback Band,
The Toasters,
Chrome,
Sällskapet,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Parry Music,
Brick,
The Fire Engines,
Sarah Menescal,
Groovy Waters,
New York Dolls,
The Moody Blues,
Jesper Dahlback,
Spoonie Gee,
Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck.
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.