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 Lithuania and from Jakarta.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 D'Angelo to the funk 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 Judy Mowatt. All the underground hits.
All Lou Reed tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Cowsills 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Skaos record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sister Nancy,
Sparks,
Mary Jane Girls,
New Age Steppers,
Half Japanese,
Eve St. Jones,
Anakelly,
Moebius,
Robert Hood,
Livin' Joy,
Lalann,
Chrome,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Gap Band,
Alice Coltrane,
The Monochrome Set,
Black Bananas,
World's Most,
Pharoah Sanders,
OOIOO,
John Coltrane,
The Real Kids,
Lalo Schifrin,
Guru Guru,
the Normal,
Amon Düül II,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Barry Ungar,
Royal Trux,
Idris Muhammad,
Public Enemy,
Sun Ra,
Eli Mardock,
Roger Hodgson,
Can,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Slits,
The Doors,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Buckinghams,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Cramps,
Moss Icon,
Thee Headcoats,
Magma,
Chris & Cosey,
Nirvana,
Iggy Pop,
The Red Krayola,
Animal Collective,
These Immortal Souls,
Jimmy McGriff,
Theoretical Girls,
Lightning Bolt,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
L. Decosne,
Bauhaus,
Jerry's Kids,
Liaisons Dangereuses, Liaisons Dangereuses, Liaisons Dangereuses, Liaisons Dangereuses.
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.