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 United Kingdom and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 theremin 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 The Dave Clark Five to the disco 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 Kas Product. All the underground hits.
All The Smoke tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Suicide 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Walker Brothers,
Janne Schatter,
Blake Baxter,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Kinks,
The Buckinghams,
The Happenings,
Byron Stingily,
The Dirtbombs,
Godley & Creme,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Cal Tjader,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Henry Cow,
Gabor Szabo,
The Toasters,
Soulsonic Force,
Monolake,
Make Up,
Mary Jane Girls,
Crash Course in Science,
Siglo XX,
Popol Vuh,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Angry Samoans,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Sällskapet,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Erasure,
Delta 5,
Agitation Free,
L. Decosne,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Golliwogs,
Bluetip,
Parry Music,
Guru Guru,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Barry Ungar,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Rites of Spring,
Grandmaster Flash,
Youth Brigade,
Japan,
Skarface,
Jandek,
Theoretical Girls,
Frankie Knuckles,
Khruangbin,
Magma,
Pet Shop Boys,
Hashim,
Marcia Griffiths,
Lalann,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Gerry Rafferty,
Matthew Halsall,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Marc Almond,
Mission of Burma,
Outsiders,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Avey Tare, Avey Tare, Avey Tare, Avey Tare.
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.