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 Saudi Arabia and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron 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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 Captain Beefheart 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 Vaughan Mason & Crew to the disco 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel. All the underground hits.
All Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ultramagnetic MC's record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Brass Construction record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Fuzztones,
Rites of Spring,
The Gladiators,
Stetsasonic,
Cameo,
Whodini,
Bang On A Can,
The Birthday Party,
DJ Sneak,
Matthew Bourne,
Matthew Halsall,
Minor Threat,
Gang Gang Dance,
Brothers Johnson,
Accadde A,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Chris Corsano,
Sun City Girls,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Shuggie Otis,
a-ha,
Intrusion,
Crooked Eye,
Wally Richardson,
Technova,
Au Pairs,
Neu!,
Young Marble Giants,
Derrick Morgan,
Minny Pops,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Mummies,
Newcleus,
The Monochrome Set,
Gil Scott Heron,
Robert Hood,
Agent Orange,
Underground Resistance,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Durutti Column,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Scan 7,
Andrew Hill,
Crime,
Angry Samoans,
La Düsseldorf,
Funky Four + One,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Sugar Minott,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Siglo XX,
Donny Hathaway,
Skarface,
The Gun Club,
Severed Heads,
Man Eating Sloth,
Y Pants,
John Foxx,
Aswad,
Bobby Sherman,
The Blues Magoos, The Blues Magoos, The Blues Magoos, The Blues Magoos.
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.