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 St Lucia and from Lille.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 güiro 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 The Chocolate Watch Band to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Trumans Water. All the underground hits.
All Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Notorious Big And Bone Thugs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mantronix,
The Sound,
The Beau Brummels,
Gichy Dan,
The Blackbyrds,
The Moody Blues,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Neon Judgement,
Schoolly D,
Altered Images,
Arthur Verocai,
The Cramps,
The American Breed,
Harmonia,
The Fuzztones,
Aswad,
Subhumans,
FM Einheit,
Newcleus,
Rufus Thomas,
Sun Ra,
Quantec,
The Cure,
Al Stewart,
Sex Pistols,
Peter & Gordon,
The Fugs,
Loose Ends,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Wake,
Delon & Dalcan,
Cluster,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Crispian St. Peters,
Amon Düül II,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Man Parrish,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Standells,
The Slits,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Eddi Front,
Yusef Lateef,
Nirvana,
Alton Ellis,
The Gap Band,
Brothers Johnson,
R.M.O.,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Robert Görl,
Blossom Toes,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Soft Machine,
Khruangbin,
The Barracudas,
The Busters,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Smoke,
Rosa Yemen,
Buzzcocks,
JFA,
Ultra Naté,
The Litter,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo.
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.