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 Australia and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Techniques to the grime kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Pantaleimon. All the underground hits.
All Sound Behaviour tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neu! 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grauzone record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gang Green,
Curtis Mayfield,
Brick,
Robert Görl,
Clear Light,
Lalo Schifrin,
the Swans,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Q and Not U,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Move,
8 Eyed Spy,
10cc,
Crooked Eye,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Star Department,
John Foxx,
Country Teasers,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Barry Ungar,
The Blues Magoos,
The Alarm Clocks,
Second Layer,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Grass Roots,
The Pop Group,
The American Breed,
Gang Starr,
Qualms,
Average White Band,
Eli Mardock,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Boz Scaggs,
Fatback Band,
E-Dancer,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Peter & Gordon,
The Litter,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Skaos,
Visage,
Rekid,
Althea and Donna,
Little Man,
Nico,
D'Angelo,
This Heat,
Porter Ricks,
Rosa Yemen,
Minor Threat,
Khruangbin,
OOIOO,
Kurtis Blow,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Tres Demented,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Sound Behaviour,
Blancmange,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.