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 Haiti and from Beijing.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Yusef Lateef to the punk 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 Mandrill. All the underground hits.
All Average White Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every David Axelrod 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Laurel Aitken,
The Buckinghams,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Barry Ungar,
Television Personalities,
James White and The Blacks,
Buzzcocks,
Kenny Larkin,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Quantec,
Robert Görl,
The Dave Clark Five,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Erasure,
FM Einheit,
Q65,
Idris Muhammad,
Technova,
Johnny Osbourne,
Lyres,
Tom Boy,
Stockholm Monsters,
ABC,
Big Daddy Kane,
Shoche,
Massinfluence,
Patti Smith,
Frankie Knuckles,
Suburban Knight,
The Doors,
Newcleus,
Sound Behaviour,
the Sonics,
Soul II Soul,
Country Teasers,
Von Mondo,
Dorothy Ashby,
Deadbeat,
Eric B and Rakim,
Livin' Joy,
Cal Tjader,
Bronski Beat,
Jawbox,
Electric Prunes,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
New Order,
Symarip,
New York Dolls,
Susan Cadogan,
T.S.O.L.,
The Fire Engines,
L. Decosne,
The Monks,
The Velvet Underground,
Neil Young,
Gil Scott Heron,
DJ Style,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Nik Kershaw, Nik Kershaw, Nik Kershaw, Nik Kershaw.
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.