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 Kazakhstan and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 Winnipeg and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 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 Swell Maps to the rap kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Adolescents. All the underground hits.
All Echo & the Bunnymen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Black Bananas record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fluxion record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joey Negro,
Icehouse,
Tres Demented,
Oneida,
Quando Quango,
Crash Course in Science,
Fluxion,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Cluster,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Todd Terry,
Moebius,
Soulsonic Force,
Henry Cow,
The Shadows of Knight,
Q65,
Minutemen,
Hardrive,
Chris Corsano,
David Bowie,
Young Marble Giants,
Youth Brigade,
Arthur Verocai,
Soul II Soul,
Deadbeat,
Lakeside,
Warsaw,
the Germs,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Von Mondo,
MC5,
Alison Limerick,
Albert Ayler,
Monolake,
Parry Music,
Faraquet,
48th St. Collective,
Television,
Pierre Henry,
Moss Icon,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Mantronix,
Angry Samoans,
Bobby Sherman,
Idris Muhammad,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Ronan,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Main Source,
Thee Headcoats,
Neil Young,
Massinfluence,
The Slits,
Curtis Mayfield,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Jeff Lynne,
Joyce Sims,
Pantytec,
Joy Division,
Connie Case, Connie Case, Connie Case, Connie Case.
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.