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 El Salvador and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Surgeon to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Robert Görl. All the underground hits.
All Index tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joy Division 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Subhumans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yellowson,
Sonic Youth,
Infiniti,
Marshall Jefferson,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Eden Ahbez,
Franke,
Simply Red,
Echospace,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Lou Reed,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Thompson Twins,
Kevin Saunderson,
Max Romeo,
Big Daddy Kane,
Leonard Cohen,
Amon Düül,
Grandmaster Flash,
Make Up,
Josef K,
Marvin Gaye,
PIL,
8 Eyed Spy,
Lakeside,
Black Bananas,
Arthur Verocai,
Danielle Patucci,
The Fortunes,
Rotary Connection,
Kenny Larkin,
Soft Machine,
Wally Richardson,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Mojo Men,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Lungfish,
Stetsasonic,
Ultravox,
Graham Central Station,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Dawn Penn,
Brand Nubian,
The Vogues,
Crispy Ambulance,
Roy Ayers,
Roxy Music,
Gabor Szabo,
Half Japanese,
Metal Thangz,
Faust,
Fat Boys,
The Modern Lovers,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Cramps,
Guru Guru,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Motions,
the Soft Cell,
Liliput,
Gil Scott Heron, Gil Scott Heron, Gil Scott Heron, Gil Scott Heron.
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.