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 Croatia and from Jakarta.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 JFA to the funk 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 Whodini. All the underground hits.
All Ohio Players tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Oblivians record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 harpsichord and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scratch Acid record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Funky Four + One,
Cal Tjader,
Janne Schatter,
The Velvet Underground,
The Last Poets,
Das Ding,
Marine Girls,
Nico,
Brass Construction,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Tubeway Army,
Zero Boys,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Monolake,
Malaria!,
The Smoke,
Brand Nubian,
Accadde A,
MC5,
Ludus,
Ornette Coleman,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The J.B.'s,
The Knickerbockers,
Niagra,
Eve St. Jones,
Quantec,
Alphaville,
Kas Product,
Brick,
Ultimate Spinach,
Gerry Rafferty,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
X-102,
Moebius,
The Blues Magoos,
kango's stein massive,
The Dirtbombs,
The Kinks,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Stooges,
The Skatalites,
Fear,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Charles Mingus,
Pierre Henry,
Terry Callier,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Josef K,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Max Romeo,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Fuzztones,
Delon & Dalcan,
Lyres,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Real Kids,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Minnie Riperton,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Siglo XX, Siglo XX, Siglo XX, Siglo XX.
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.