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 Andorra and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic to the rap kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Crispian St. Peters. All the underground hits.
All Al Stewart tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Associates record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 an oboe and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Niagra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Josef K,
Con Funk Shun,
Jesper Dahlback,
Scott Walker,
Robert Görl,
Stockholm Monsters,
Letta Mbulu,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Slackers,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Talk Talk,
Metal Thangz,
Ornette Coleman,
Pylon,
Parry Music,
Wire,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Rapeman,
Fluxion,
Soul II Soul,
Thee Headcoats,
Erasure,
New Order,
World's Most,
Rotary Connection,
Neil Young,
Bill Wells,
Half Japanese,
Leonard Cohen,
Au Pairs,
Quando Quango,
Hasil Adkins,
Moebius,
Basic Channel,
Animal Collective,
Pulsallama,
Kool Moe Dee,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Schoolly D,
Cecil Taylor,
PIL,
Simply Red,
Glambeats Corp.,
Bluetip,
MDC,
The Monochrome Set,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Sandy B,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Radio Birdman,
Lakeside,
Pole,
Sound Behaviour,
Reuben Wilson,
Slick Rick,
Kenny Larkin,
H. Thieme,
The Human League,
Marine Girls,
Main Source, Main Source, Main Source, Main Source.
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.