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 Philippines and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 guitar 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 Livin' Joy to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Donald Byrd. All the underground hits.
All The Angels of Light tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lyres record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Davy DMX record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes 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?
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Flipper,
A Certain Ratio,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Goldenarms,
Alton Ellis,
The Barracudas,
Marmalade,
Tim Buckley,
X-102,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Excepter,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Minor Threat,
The Busters,
The Walker Brothers,
Black Moon,
Bobby Womack,
Stetsasonic,
The Victims,
The Slits,
Oblivians,
Mo-Dettes,
Trumans Water,
Swans,
Cymande,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Organ,
Byron Stingily,
The Dave Clark Five,
Danielle Patucci,
Soul II Soul,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Das Ding,
The Moleskins,
Bizarre Inc.,
Camouflage,
Silicon Teens,
James White and The Blacks,
Mr. Review,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Livin' Joy,
Amon Düül II,
The Litter,
Jacques Brel,
Hoover,
Simply Red,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
China Crisis,
Con Funk Shun,
Roger Hodgson,
Bootsy Collins,
The Gun Club,
Scratch Acid,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Dark Day,
Fifty Foot Hose, Fifty Foot Hose, Fifty Foot Hose, Fifty Foot Hose.
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.