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 Kiribati and from Columbus.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Cairo.
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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Howard Jones to the rap 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 Danielle Patucci. All the underground hits.
All The Standells tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yaz record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pantytec record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Skriet,
Althea and Donna,
Dennis Brown,
Clear Light,
Swell Maps,
Man Parrish,
Groovy Waters,
Ponytail,
One Last Wish,
Tommy Roe,
Harmonia,
Arab on Radar,
John Foxx,
Anthony Braxton,
the Sonics,
Oneida,
Pharoah Sanders,
Rhythm & Sound,
Albert Ayler,
The Fall,
Jacques Brel,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Y Pants,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Cal Tjader,
The Trojans,
The Skatalites,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Yusef Lateef,
Kevin Saunderson,
Anakelly,
The Black Dice,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Standells,
Liliput,
Neu!,
The Martian,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Bob Dylan,
The Moody Blues,
kango's stein massive,
KRS-One,
Ornette Coleman,
OOIOO,
H. Thieme,
Lalann,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Kerri Chandler,
the Human League,
The Blackbyrds,
Quantec,
Aural Exciters,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Pantytec,
Guru Guru,
Inner City,
The Residents,
Pulsallama,
Junior Murvin,
Drive Like Jehu,
Black Pus,
F. McDonald,
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.