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 Palau and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Yaz to the dance 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 Young Marble Giants. All the underground hits.
All Althea and Donna tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Agent Orange record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Althea and Donna record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Bill Wells,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
D'Angelo,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Brick,
Second Layer,
Mandrill,
Marcia Griffiths,
Black Sheep,
the Germs,
James White and The Blacks,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
John Cale,
The Knickerbockers,
Bill Near,
Can,
the Human League,
Robert Wyatt,
Procol Harum,
Big Daddy Kane,
Frankie Knuckles,
Man Eating Sloth,
Lalann,
The Modern Lovers,
Anthony Braxton,
Jacob Miller,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Danielle Patucci,
Model 500,
Goldenarms,
The Searchers,
Babytalk,
Eve St. Jones,
Radiohead,
Michelle Simonal,
Public Image Ltd.,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Count Five,
Quadrant,
B.T. Express,
Ponytail,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Fatback Band,
Albert Ayler,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Ludus,
Ultimate Spinach,
Basic Channel,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Fuzztones,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Terry Callier,
The Slits,
David Axelrod,
Boredoms,
New York Dolls,
Delon & Dalcan,
Piero Umiliani,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Residents, The Residents, The Residents, The Residents.
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.