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 Malta and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 mellotron 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 Eric Dolphy to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Rotary Connection. All the underground hits.
All Drexciya tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eli Mardock record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 rhodes and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alice Coltrane record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ultravox,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Slits,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Barry Ungar,
The Invisible,
Talk Talk,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Joy Division,
Terry Callier,
Minor Threat,
Jesper Dahlback,
Joe Smooth,
Lalo Schifrin,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Zeros,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The United States of America,
Public Enemy,
Sonic Youth,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Peter and Kerry,
Deakin,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Jacques Brel,
Babytalk,
Jacob Miller,
Robert Hood,
Maurizio,
Soft Machine,
Banda Bassotti,
Gichy Dan,
Eric Dolphy,
Nas,
Crash Course in Science,
Peter & Gordon,
Lower 48,
The Gun Club,
The Cure,
Soft Cell,
MDC,
Mr. Review,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Ten City,
Bootsy Collins,
Neu!,
Scan 7,
Little Man,
Ludus,
Lyres,
R.M.O.,
Dead Boys,
Fad Gadget,
The Five Americans,
The Associates,
Au Pairs,
Aswad,
Main Source,
The Moody Blues,
The Mojo Men,
The Shadows of Knight, The Shadows of Knight, The Shadows of Knight, The Shadows of Knight.
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.