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 Venezuela and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Gap Band to the electroclash kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Neu!. All the underground hits.
All Shoche tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lalo Schifrin record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hardrive record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Thompson Twins,
Brick,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Unrelated Segments,
Cal Tjader,
Donny Hathaway,
Rapeman,
Barclay James Harvest,
Fat Boys,
Public Image Ltd.,
Main Source,
Guru Guru,
Das Ding,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
David Axelrod,
Robert Wyatt,
Andrew Hill,
Section 25,
Gerry Rafferty,
Ronan,
L. Decosne,
Boogie Down Productions,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Slits,
D'Angelo,
Grey Daturas,
Saccharine Trust,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Arab on Radar,
The Blues Magoos,
Bob Dylan,
a-ha,
Motorama,
Magma,
The Slackers,
Ten City,
Deadbeat,
Chrome,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Monochrome Set,
8 Eyed Spy,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Nils Olav,
Arcadia,
Donald Byrd,
Funkadelic,
Tropical Tobacco,
Patti Smith,
Maleditus Sound,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Adolescents,
The Seeds,
R.M.O.,
Blancmange,
Skaos,
Siglo XX,
Drive Like Jehu,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
China Crisis,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Residents,
Lyres, Lyres, Lyres, Lyres.
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.