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 Qatar and from Paris.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 The New Christs to the punk 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 Ultramagnetic MC's. All the underground hits.
All The Monochrome Set tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Carl Craig record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jacques Brel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Monolake,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Smoke,
Sonny Sharrock,
Connie Case,
Country Teasers,
Drive Like Jehu,
Loose Ends,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Bobby Byrd,
The Cure,
Darondo,
In Retrospect,
June of 44,
Delta 5,
The Real Kids,
B.T. Express,
Animal Collective,
Warren Ellis,
Ohio Players,
The Associates,
Cybotron,
Franke,
Howard Jones,
Carl Craig,
Rosa Yemen,
Groovy Waters,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Monochrome Set,
The Young Rascals,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Gladiators,
the Bar-Kays,
Fugazi,
The J.B.'s,
The Index,
Alton Ellis,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Toasters,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
the Soft Cell,
a-ha,
The Wake,
The Martian,
Suburban Knight,
Nick Fraelich,
Chris Corsano,
Talk Talk,
Bauhaus,
DJ Sneak,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Gories,
Bang On A Can,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Mission of Burma,
Camouflage,
The Slits,
OOIOO,
Donald Byrd,
The Blues Magoos, The Blues Magoos, The Blues Magoos, The Blues Magoos.
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.