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 Cuba and from Accra.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 grunge kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx. All the underground hits.
All Kevin Saunderson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every David Bowie 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Desert Stars record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
LL Cool J,
Rotary Connection,
Kenny Larkin,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Velvet Underground,
The Fire Engines,
Goldenarms,
MC5,
Suicide,
Prince Buster,
Franke,
The Happenings,
Heaven 17,
Vainqueur,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Funky Four + One,
Main Source,
The Five Americans,
Rhythm & Sound,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Music Machine,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Joensuu 1685,
Magma,
The Monochrome Set,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Josef K,
Make Up,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Flash Fearless,
Qualms,
Carl Craig,
Idris Muhammad,
The Birthday Party,
Cymande,
Minny Pops,
Kas Product,
This Heat,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
F. McDonald,
Dark Day,
Stockholm Monsters,
Warren Ellis,
David McCallum,
Altered Images,
Second Layer,
Ultravox,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Lee Hazlewood,
Japan,
Maleditus Sound,
Faust,
The Gap Band,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Radio Birdman,
Intrusion,
Gang of Four,
Fela Kuti,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Technova,
Kayak,
Brick,
Johnny Osbourne, Johnny Osbourne, Johnny Osbourne, Johnny Osbourne.
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.