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 Trinidad & Tobago and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and London.
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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Hot Snakes to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Negative Approach. All the underground hits.
All Manfred Mann's Earth Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every U.S. Maple 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Sonics,
Toni Rubio,
The Five Americans,
The Monks,
Jeff Mills,
Eric Dolphy,
cv313,
Radio Birdman,
Bluetip,
PIL,
Flash Fearless,
Magazine,
Aswad,
Heaven 17,
Essential Logic,
The Beau Brummels,
Danielle Patucci,
The Last Poets,
Cheater Slicks,
Jacques Brel,
the Soft Cell,
Eden Ahbez,
The Alarm Clocks,
Quadrant,
The Vogues,
Aural Exciters,
Wasted Youth,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Black Dice,
Scion,
Aloha Tigers,
Slick Rick,
Peter & Gordon,
Gong,
Lyres,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Television,
Letta Mbulu,
The Blues Magoos,
The Raincoats,
Ludus,
The Skatalites,
Black Bananas,
The Misunderstood,
Kerrie Biddell,
48th St. Collective,
Fugazi,
Pylon,
Malaria!,
Isaac Hayes,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Toasters,
This Heat,
Josef K,
the Association,
Zero Boys,
The Remains,
The Barracudas,
Roxette,
Monolake,
JFA,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.