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 Albania and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 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 Pole to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Model 500. All the underground hits.
All the Swans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gang Starr record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 güiro and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a a-ha record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Motorama,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Funky Four + One,
The Blues Magoos,
Hasil Adkins,
Electric Prunes,
Main Source,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Gap Band,
Scion,
Magma,
Rosa Yemen,
Buzzcocks,
Amon Düül II,
Rapeman,
Danielle Patucci,
Soft Cell,
Roxy Music,
Bobby Womack,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Minor Threat,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Schoolly D,
Eli Mardock,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Jawbox,
Graham Central Station,
Unwound,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Johnny Osbourne,
Pylon,
Gichy Dan,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Rotary Connection,
Essential Logic,
Lou Reed,
Sun City Girls,
The Wake,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Mo-Dettes,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Boz Scaggs,
Arab on Radar,
Mandrill,
Fela Kuti,
MDC,
Siglo XX,
The Smiths,
Moebius,
Rekid,
The Grass Roots,
Gastr Del Sol,
Yaz,
Kerri Chandler,
Desert Stars,
Althea and Donna,
Carl Craig,
Fad Gadget,
Curtis Mayfield, Curtis Mayfield, Curtis Mayfield, Curtis Mayfield.
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.