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 Niger and from Bologna.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 chamberlin 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 Pierre Henry to the punk 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 James Chance & The Contortions. All the underground hits.
All Babytalk tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Modern Lovers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 808 and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Godley & Creme record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Von Mondo,
Procol Harum,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Vainqueur,
Black Flag,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Joey Negro,
Funky Four + One,
Bad Manners,
Nas,
Mr. Review,
Boogie Down Productions,
Jawbox,
Faraquet,
The Fuzztones,
Robert Görl,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
D'Angelo,
Mo-Dettes,
Steve Hackett,
Alice Coltrane,
Alphaville,
Accadde A,
Television,
Audionom,
Deepchord,
Flamin' Groovies,
Matthew Halsall,
Yusef Lateef,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Rufus Thomas,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Boredoms,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Outsiders,
Idris Muhammad,
Hot Snakes,
Monks,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Moody Blues,
Little Man,
Toni Rubio,
Ossler,
Skriet,
Bronski Beat,
Dead Boys,
Mandrill,
John Holt,
Pantytec,
Intrusion,
New Order,
Loose Ends,
Bizarre Inc.,
Gabor Szabo,
The Invisible,
Sound Behaviour,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Spoonie Gee,
Index,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Fad Gadget, Fad Gadget, Fad Gadget, Fad Gadget.
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.