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 Sierra Leone and from Milan.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Amon Düül to the crunk 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 Gichy Dan. All the underground hits.
All Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gang Starr record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 spring reverb and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lebanon Hanover record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Drexciya,
The Monochrome Set,
Au Pairs,
The Seeds,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Tubeway Army,
Surgeon,
The Count Five,
Scion,
Joey Negro,
Carl Craig,
The Barracudas,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
UT,
X-101,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Excepter,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Youth Brigade,
Circle Jerks,
Boogie Down Productions,
Los Fastidios,
Susan Cadogan,
Eurythmics,
Ralphi Rosario,
Crispy Ambulance,
Clear Light,
The Invisible,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Warsaw,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Panda Bear,
The Doors,
Main Source,
Y Pants,
Lungfish,
Angry Samoans,
Roy Ayers,
Jimmy McGriff,
Moebius,
Ohio Players,
Man Parrish,
Sister Nancy,
The Grass Roots,
10cc,
Underground Resistance,
Das Ding,
John Foxx,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Gap Band,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Juan Atkins,
Infiniti,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Erykah Badu,
Drive Like Jehu,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Bobby Womack,
Bobby Sherman,
Skriet, Skriet, Skriet, Skriet.
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.