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 Mauritius and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 marimba 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 Accadde A to the rock 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 Black Pus. All the underground hits.
All Fugazi tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Moleskins record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amon Düül II record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Minutemen,
Juan Atkins,
Siglo XX,
Henry Cow,
Althea and Donna,
The Gap Band,
Bobby Byrd,
Hashim,
The Slackers,
Fluxion,
The Invisible,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Joyce Sims,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Sound Behaviour,
The Barracudas,
Terry Callier,
K-Klass,
Procol Harum,
Charles Mingus,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
kango's stein massive,
Wire,
Clear Light,
Blancmange,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Kurtis Blow,
Stetsasonic,
Mars,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Todd Rundgren,
Porter Ricks,
The Birthday Party,
Throbbing Gristle,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Country Teasers,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
John Coltrane,
Symarip,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Robert Görl,
Reuben Wilson,
The Buckinghams,
Magma,
Matthew Halsall,
Unwound,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Nils Olav,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Boredoms,
Television Personalities,
Barbara Tucker,
H. Thieme,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Joy Division,
Aswad,
Donny Hathaway,
R.M.O.,
Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees.
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.