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 Netherlands and from Sao Paulo.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Jerry's Kids to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Mo-Dettes. All the underground hits.
All Lightning Bolt tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Pretty Things record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 snare and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Patti Smith record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pierre Henry,
Subhumans,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Talk Talk,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Mars,
Bobby Byrd,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Kaleidoscope,
Lalo Schifrin,
Lightning Bolt,
The Victims,
Joensuu 1685,
Flamin' Groovies,
LL Cool J,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Au Pairs,
Animal Collective,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Kayak,
Brand Nubian,
Porter Ricks,
Magazine,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Black Moon,
Fluxion,
Mr. Review,
Donald Byrd,
Lalann,
Desert Stars,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Tremeloes,
Michelle Simonal,
Flash Fearless,
Ornette Coleman,
Soul II Soul,
Aaron Thompson,
Freddie Wadling,
Television,
The Black Dice,
Reuben Wilson,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Real Kids,
The Durutti Column,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Amon Düül II,
Altered Images,
DJ Sneak,
Zero Boys,
Laurel Aitken,
Outsiders,
The Last Poets,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Chris Corsano,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Echospace,
Soft Machine, Soft Machine, Soft Machine, Soft Machine.
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.