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 Lesotho and from Mexico City.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the snare 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 The Velvet Underground to the techno 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 The Shadows of Knight. All the underground hits.
All Eli Mardock tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joensuu 1685 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rotary Connection,
The Monks,
Ultimate Spinach,
Rod Modell,
Soulsonic Force,
Depeche Mode,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Tim Buckley,
Niagra,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Metal Thangz,
the Germs,
Theoretical Girls,
Derrick Morgan,
the Fania All-Stars,
Roxette,
The Dave Clark Five,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
A Certain Ratio,
Suicide,
The Fall,
Fela Kuti,
Deakin,
Lightning Bolt,
Ultra Naté,
The Fortunes,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Essential Logic,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Minnie Riperton,
Flash Fearless,
Parry Music,
Josef K,
Andrew Hill,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
a-ha,
Grey Daturas,
Kayak,
Cameo,
Yusef Lateef,
The United States of America,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Kas Product,
Thee Headcoats,
Bizarre Inc.,
Derrick May,
The J.B.'s,
Carl Craig,
Gang of Four,
Moby Grape,
Ralphi Rosario,
Los Fastidios,
Marine Girls,
The Move,
the Slits,
John Coltrane,
The Stooges,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Crispy Ambulance,
Donald Byrd, Donald Byrd, Donald Byrd, Donald Byrd.
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.