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 Slovenia and from Hong Kong.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 snare 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 Franke to the grime 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 Delta 5. All the underground hits.
All Ultra Naté tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Banda Bassotti 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Derrick Morgan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David Axelrod,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Icehouse,
Flipper,
Aloha Tigers,
China Crisis,
Easy Going,
Gang of Four,
The Electric Prunes,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Mary Jane Girls,
T.S.O.L.,
The Toasters,
Skaos,
Archie Shepp,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Swans,
Gang Starr,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Minutemen,
Magazine,
Technova,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Arthur Verocai,
Don Cherry,
Neu!,
Johnny Osbourne,
Hot Snakes,
Chrome,
Nation of Ulysses,
Fluxion,
Main Source,
Lower 48,
Reuben Wilson,
Radiopuhelimet,
Warsaw,
the Germs,
Prince Buster,
Gichy Dan,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Soul Sonic Force,
Bang On A Can,
Judy Mowatt,
Q65,
Blake Baxter,
Minor Threat,
Roxy Music,
The Doobie Brothers,
Lebanon Hanover,
Index,
Anakelly,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Robert Hood,
Marc Almond,
Andrew Hill,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Metal Thangz,
Marmalade,
Grey Daturas,
Lindisfarne,
The Cramps,
Sun City Girls,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown.
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.