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 Kosovo and from Beijing.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Idris Muhammad to the funk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Faust. All the underground hits.
All Little Man tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Interpol record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Michelle Simonal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Morten Harket,
the Sonics,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Clear Light,
The Modern Lovers,
Duran Duran,
Gerry Rafferty,
Bobby Byrd,
Masters at Work,
Tommy Roe,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Eli Mardock,
Eve St. Jones,
Toni Rubio,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Marmalade,
This Heat,
FM Einheit,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Accadde A,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Oneida,
Traffic Nightmare,
Roxette,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Blues Magoos,
Thompson Twins,
Half Japanese,
Idris Muhammad,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Young Rascals,
Ralphi Rosario,
Amon Düül II,
Ossler,
Gong,
Flipper,
New Age Steppers,
The Monks,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Rapeman,
Maurizio,
Deadbeat,
Ultimate Spinach,
Bad Manners,
Cymande,
Banda Bassotti,
L. Decosne,
Los Fastidios,
Girls At Our Best!,
Juan Atkins,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Trojans,
8 Eyed Spy,
Newcleus,
Gang of Four,
Ice-T,
Amon Düül,
Pierre Henry,
Lucky Dragons,
Fatback Band, Fatback Band, Fatback Band, Fatback Band.
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.