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 Uruguay 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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Maleditus Sound to the punk 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 Minny Pops. All the underground hits.
All The Monochrome Set tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tim Buckley record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hardrive record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hashim,
Country Teasers,
Black Pus,
Pierre Henry,
Little Man,
the Sonics,
The Invisible,
Susan Cadogan,
Zapp,
Crash Course in Science,
Chris Corsano,
The Cowsills,
Skriet,
Q and Not U,
Marshall Jefferson,
Big Daddy Kane,
Iggy Pop,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Sällskapet,
Index,
Gerry Rafferty,
Shuggie Otis,
Sister Nancy,
Barry Ungar,
Cheater Slicks,
Excepter,
Robert Wyatt,
James White and The Blacks,
Ponytail,
Piero Umiliani,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Youth Brigade,
David McCallum,
The Associates,
Gregory Isaacs,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Peter and Kerry,
The Count Five,
kango's stein massive,
Swell Maps,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Japan,
The Grass Roots,
Brass Construction,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Names,
La Düsseldorf,
Make Up,
Albert Ayler,
Liliput,
The Durutti Column,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Reuben Wilson,
Scientists,
Ice-T,
Avey Tare,
R.M.O.,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Bob Dylan,
Moss Icon,
Ornette Coleman, Ornette Coleman, Ornette Coleman, Ornette Coleman.
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.