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 Cambodia and from Hong Kong.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the guitar 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 Cluster to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Cybotron. All the underground hits.
All Isaac Hayes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aural Exciters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 a 808 and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a EPMD record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Vladislav Delay,
Matthew Halsall,
Al Stewart,
Cameo,
Hashim,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Sister Nancy,
Swell Maps,
Urselle,
The Fuzztones,
Jacob Miller,
The Fortunes,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Deadbeat,
Ludus,
Todd Terry,
Bluetip,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Crispy Ambulance,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Warren Ellis,
Blake Baxter,
Don Cherry,
Half Japanese,
Ossler,
It's A Beautiful Day,
LL Cool J,
Von Mondo,
The Misunderstood,
The Durutti Column,
These Immortal Souls,
Iggy Pop,
Clear Light,
Gang Starr,
Surgeon,
Unrelated Segments,
Royal Trux,
Slick Rick,
Curtis Mayfield,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Sällskapet,
Marcia Griffiths,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Siglo XX,
The Happenings,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Liliput,
Derrick Morgan,
Sun City Girls,
Minny Pops,
Suicide,
The Star Department,
Goldenarms,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Cybotron,
The Residents,
Radiohead,
The Slits,
D'Angelo,
Sight & Sound, Sight & Sound, Sight & Sound, Sight & Sound.
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.