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 India and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 Mumbai and Bremen.
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 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 Lou Reed 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 Robert Görl to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Eden Ahbez. All the underground hits.
All Fad Gadget tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Blackbyrds record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Mighty Diamonds record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Skaos,
Tim Buckley,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Scan 7,
Marvin Gaye,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
KRS-One,
The Velvet Underground,
Piero Umiliani,
Moss Icon,
Steve Hackett,
The Black Dice,
Nick Fraelich,
Sun City Girls,
Thompson Twins,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Clear Light,
the Germs,
Rufus Thomas,
Harpers Bizarre,
MC5,
T.S.O.L.,
Masters at Work,
Tomorrow,
Monks,
The Seeds,
Japan,
Shoche,
The Names,
Mandrill,
Black Pus,
Main Source,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Moody Blues,
Dennis Brown,
Junior Murvin,
Nas,
Soulsonic Force,
Toni Rubio,
Kaleidoscope,
Roxy Music,
Don Cherry,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Popol Vuh,
La Düsseldorf,
Country Teasers,
Kurtis Blow,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Lalann,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Reagan Youth,
Pet Shop Boys,
Tubeway Army,
Be Bop Deluxe,
MDC,
Lou Reed,
Cybotron,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Pretty Things,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, The Peanut Butter Conspiracy.
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.