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 Hungary and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 Columbus and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Monolake to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Grauzone. All the underground hits.
All Electric Light Orchestra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every These Immortal Souls 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mandrill record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gang of Four,
Scott Walker,
Lyres,
the Human League,
The Stooges,
Pharoah Sanders,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Excepter,
Clear Light,
Agent Orange,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Busters,
Duran Duran,
Man Parrish,
Peter & Gordon,
The Barracudas,
Icehouse,
Ronnie Foster,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Vogues,
Matthew Halsall,
Basic Channel,
Scientists,
Kurtis Blow,
Todd Terry,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Warren Ellis,
Joe Smooth,
Interpol,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Grass Roots,
Don Cherry,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Kool Moe Dee,
Hardrive,
Sister Nancy,
Agitation Free,
Von Mondo,
OOIOO,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
EPMD,
Skarface,
MDC,
Marine Girls,
Pere Ubu,
Echospace,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Nico,
The Leaves,
Connie Case,
Television,
Country Teasers,
Maurizio,
Ralphi Rosario,
Alton Ellis,
The Dead C,
Whodini,
D'Angelo,
Eden Ahbez, Eden Ahbez, Eden Ahbez, Eden Ahbez.
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.