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 Korea North and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 Robert Palmer 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 Ponytail to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Stetsasonic. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yaz 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a In Retrospect record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
MDC,
Negative Approach,
Yaz,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Smoke,
Ronnie Foster,
Joe Smooth,
A Certain Ratio,
Amazonics,
Jesper Dahlback,
Bill Near,
Man Parrish,
June of 44,
Arcadia,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
JFA,
Sun City Girls,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Adolescents,
Gabor Szabo,
Desert Stars,
Susan Cadogan,
Drive Like Jehu,
Crooked Eye,
Yellowson,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Half Japanese,
The Durutti Column,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Radiohead,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Black Dice,
New Age Steppers,
Boredoms,
Delon & Dalcan,
Sparks,
Little Man,
LL Cool J,
Boogie Down Productions,
Wings,
kango's stein massive,
Organ,
a-ha,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
John Cale,
Danielle Patucci,
The Human League,
Leonard Cohen,
Slave,
Gong,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Main Source,
Sällskapet,
Lyres,
Carl Craig,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Make Up,
Ralphi Rosario, Ralphi Rosario, Ralphi Rosario, Ralphi Rosario.
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.