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 Brunei and from Salvador.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Johannesburg.
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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Eurythmics to the crunk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Dennis Brown. All the underground hits.
All Oneida tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nirvana record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 mellotron and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eric Dolphy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ronnie Foster,
Fear,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Reagan Youth,
The Human League,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Bizarre Inc.,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Rufus Thomas,
Electric Prunes,
the Soft Cell,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Pole,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Ten City,
Motorama,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Absolute Body Control,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Depeche Mode,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Kurtis Blow,
Freddie Wadling,
Jeff Lynne,
DJ Sneak,
Jandek,
Ossler,
Sun Ra,
New York Dolls,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Albert Ayler,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Wasted Youth,
Amazonics,
Nils Olav,
Amon Düül II,
Schoolly D,
Silicon Teens,
Index,
Talk Talk,
Severed Heads,
The Fortunes,
Mission of Burma,
X-102,
Echospace,
Half Japanese,
Darondo,
8 Eyed Spy,
Crooked Eye,
The Smoke,
Blossom Toes,
Hasil Adkins,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Smiths,
Chris & Cosey,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
World's Most,
Little Man,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy McGriff.
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.