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 Spokane.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic to the jazz 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 Sun Ra. All the underground hits.
All Gang Gang Dance tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Isaac Hayes 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Fire Engines record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Basic Channel,
UT,
Vladislav Delay,
The Fuzztones,
Liliput,
Drive Like Jehu,
June of 44,
Gong,
The Star Department,
Davy DMX,
Half Japanese,
Slave,
The Busters,
The Kinks,
The Residents,
Anthony Braxton,
The Techniques,
Connie Case,
Das Ding,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Rotary Connection,
Desert Stars,
Zapp,
Delta 5,
Mission of Burma,
Quantec,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Wasted Youth,
Camberwell Now,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Pole,
Pharoah Sanders,
Curtis Mayfield,
Aural Exciters,
Unwound,
Lucky Dragons,
Fat Boys,
Eurythmics,
Lebanon Hanover,
Grandmaster Flash,
DNA,
Echospace,
Alice Coltrane,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Bootsy Collins,
Tim Buckley,
The Litter,
The Knickerbockers,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Soft Cell,
Dark Day,
Inner City,
Dave Gahan,
The Stooges,
Mr. Review,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Beau Brummels,
Michelle Simonal,
The Doobie Brothers,
Isaac Hayes,
Marmalade,
Blossom Toes, Blossom Toes, Blossom Toes, Blossom Toes.
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.