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 Macedonia and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez 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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Manfred Mann's Earth Band to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Basic Channel. All the underground hits.
All The Walker Brothers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Oblivians 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dorothy Ashby record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grandmaster Flash,
The Velvet Underground,
The Slackers,
Boredoms,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Juan Atkins,
Vainqueur,
Bang On A Can,
the Human League,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Moss Icon,
Ludus,
June of 44,
Minutemen,
Flash Fearless,
Graham Central Station,
Nas,
Sonic Youth,
KRS-One,
Popol Vuh,
Q and Not U,
The Techniques,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Minor Threat,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Young Rascals,
The Walker Brothers,
Peter & Gordon,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Section 25,
Angry Samoans,
Quantec,
The Move,
Loose Ends,
Quando Quango,
Monks,
Crispian St. Peters,
Mo-Dettes,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Masters at Work,
U.S. Maple,
Model 500,
Tears for Fears,
Banda Bassotti,
Smog,
Alphaville,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Eric Dolphy,
Bootsy Collins,
Grey Daturas,
Radio Birdman,
Matthew Halsall,
Clear Light,
Curtis Mayfield,
Reuben Wilson,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Names,
Alton Ellis,
Duran Duran,
Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth.
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.