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 Nigeria and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Lyon.
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 theremin 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 Jesper Dahlback to the rap kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Rod Modell. All the underground hits.
All Letta Mbulu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Art Ensemble Of Chicago 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 theremin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Symarip record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Music Machine,
Joy Division,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Gong,
Audionom,
The Knickerbockers,
Jeru the Damaja,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Barracudas,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Fat Boys,
The Busters,
The Blackbyrds,
Youth Brigade,
Eric Copeland,
Pharoah Sanders,
Grandmaster Flash,
Organ,
Bill Near,
D'Angelo,
Kaleidoscope,
Agent Orange,
Mr. Review,
Neu!,
Charles Mingus,
The Residents,
Hot Snakes,
The Doors,
Dual Sessions,
The Monochrome Set,
Big Daddy Kane,
Grey Daturas,
Juan Atkins,
Soft Machine,
Robert Görl,
Average White Band,
The Pretty Things,
Bluetip,
MC5,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Scientists,
Yaz,
Ultravox,
Camouflage,
Delon & Dalcan,
Reagan Youth,
Flipper,
Monks,
Livin' Joy,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Wings,
Absolute Body Control,
Lebanon Hanover,
Brand Nubian,
Maleditus Sound,
B.T. Express,
Soul Sonic Force,
Angry Samoans,
Tim Buckley,
Rod Modell,
Visage,
Spandau Ballet, Spandau Ballet, Spandau Ballet, Spandau Ballet.
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.