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 Accra.
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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 Scott Walker + Sunn O))) to the grunge 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 Marmalade. All the underground hits.
All Barrington Levy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Schoolly D record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 snare and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scan 7,
Nirvana,
Eve St. Jones,
Moss Icon,
MDC,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Soft Machine,
Sexual Harrassment,
Technova,
Moby Grape,
Peter and Kerry,
Mark Hollis,
Amon Düül,
Public Enemy,
Public Image Ltd.,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Josef K,
Fela Kuti,
Marmalade,
Fad Gadget,
Dennis Brown,
The Evens,
Schoolly D,
Desert Stars,
Dual Sessions,
June of 44,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Gun Club,
Dave Gahan,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Michelle Simonal,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Gories,
Kenny Larkin,
Silicon Teens,
David Axelrod,
The Velvet Underground,
A Certain Ratio,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The New Christs,
Kas Product,
Toni Rubio,
Be Bop Deluxe,
the Human League,
Laurel Aitken,
Eric Copeland,
Todd Terry,
The Real Kids,
Jacob Miller,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Lou Christie,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
DJ Style,
Sound Behaviour,
Massinfluence,
Avey Tare,
The Five Americans,
Guru Guru,
Man Parrish,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.