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 Jordan and from Portland.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Winnipeg.
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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 PIL 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 Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines. All the underground hits.
All Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kool G Rap & DJ Polo 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Strawberry Alarm Clock record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rod Modell,
Anakelly,
Rhythm & Sound,
Donald Byrd,
Jacob Miller,
The Blackbyrds,
The Stooges,
Liliput,
Wings,
Delta 5,
The Misunderstood,
The Offenders,
Yaz,
Swell Maps,
Tom Boy,
The Dave Clark Five,
David Axelrod,
Second Layer,
Los Fastidios,
Siglo XX,
Wolf Eyes,
A Certain Ratio,
The Walker Brothers,
Janne Schatter,
Stereo Dub,
John Holt,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Seeds,
Zero Boys,
The Fire Engines,
CMW,
Joensuu 1685,
The Litter,
Angry Samoans,
Sight & Sound,
Isaac Hayes,
Marc Almond,
Faust,
Peter and Kerry,
John Coltrane,
Lindisfarne,
Aaron Thompson,
Index,
MDC,
Aloha Tigers,
The Index,
Japan,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
DNA,
Icehouse,
The Angels of Light,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Minnie Riperton,
The Star Department,
The Trojans,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Blake Baxter,
Ludus,
Bootsy Collins,
Franke, Franke, Franke, Franke.
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.