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 Ecuador and from Madrid.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the sitar 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 Radiohead to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 AZ. All the underground hits.
All The Gun Club tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Lydon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a June Days 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?
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Black Pus,
Silicon Teens,
The Pop Group,
In Retrospect,
Lower 48,
Chrome,
Skarface,
Icehouse,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Model 500,
Porter Ricks,
The Blackbyrds,
Easy Going,
Accadde A,
Average White Band,
Delon & Dalcan,
Black Flag,
Joyce Sims,
Yaz,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Moss Icon,
Darondo,
Pantytec,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Soft Cell,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Leaves,
Piero Umiliani,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Star Department,
Babytalk,
DJ Sneak,
Toni Rubio,
Sparks,
Slick Rick,
Talk Talk,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Scott Walker,
David McCallum,
Harmonia,
Sandy B,
Jawbox,
Scrapy,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Ludus,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Rhythm & Sound,
Franke,
Country Teasers,
Grauzone,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Delta 5,
B.T. Express,
The Motions, The Motions, The Motions, The Motions.
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.