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 Antigua and from Mumbai.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Kaleidoscope to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Donny Hathaway. All the underground hits.
All F. McDonald tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kevin Saunderson 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gary Puckett & The Union Gap record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Sonics,
DJ Sneak,
Erykah Badu,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Lucky Dragons,
Mark Hollis,
Rosa Yemen,
Y Pants,
The Raincoats,
Donald Byrd,
Banda Bassotti,
Television,
Soulsonic Force,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Cybotron,
Lee Hazlewood,
Jimmy McGriff,
Mission of Burma,
Fatback Band,
Shuggie Otis,
The Techniques,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Delta 5,
Qualms,
Agitation Free,
ABC,
Freddie Wadling,
Dave Gahan,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Animal Collective,
Excepter,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Soft Cell,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
This Heat,
Intrusion,
Frankie Knuckles,
Saccharine Trust,
The Cramps,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Godley & Creme,
Kool Moe Dee,
Camouflage,
Jesper Dahlback,
Man Eating Sloth,
Scientists,
Absolute Body Control,
OOIOO,
The Gladiators,
The Moleskins,
Deadbeat,
Gang Starr,
The Barracudas,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Toasters,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Sam Rivers,
Hardrive,
Maleditus Sound,
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.