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 Vietnam and from Madrid.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Jeff Mills to the dance kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 The Tremeloes. All the underground hits.
All The Leaves tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Monks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Heaven 17 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Infiniti,
the Bar-Kays,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Ohio Players,
Interpol,
Moby Grape,
Boz Scaggs,
The Selecter,
The Vogues,
Minutemen,
Silicon Teens,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Pole,
Nik Kershaw,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Average White Band,
Rhythm & Sound,
David McCallum,
Camberwell Now,
Steve Hackett,
Franke,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Electric Prunes,
the Swans,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Remains,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Barrington Levy,
Sister Nancy,
Tubeway Army,
Brothers Johnson,
The Velvet Underground,
Rosa Yemen,
Rekid,
Crispian St. Peters,
Monolake,
T.S.O.L.,
Carl Craig,
Lightning Bolt,
Pussy Galore,
MDC,
Gabor Szabo,
Public Image Ltd.,
Jesper Dahlback,
Soft Cell,
Darondo,
World's Most,
Pulsallama,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Fuzztones,
The Moleskins,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Von Mondo,
Thompson Twins,
Theoretical Girls,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.