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 Iraq and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 arpeggiator 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 Sixth Finger to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Kango’s Stein Massive. All the underground hits.
All Echo & the Bunnymen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Subhumans 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gary Puckett & The Union Gap record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Faust,
Jacob Miller,
Dark Day,
Hot Snakes,
Patti Smith,
Fluxion,
The Doobie Brothers,
Skarface,
Iggy Pop,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
K-Klass,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Warsaw,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Fela Kuti,
Shuggie Otis,
Minor Threat,
Cybotron,
The Golliwogs,
PIL,
Sarah Menescal,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Bill Wells,
Warren Ellis,
Matthew Bourne,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Aural Exciters,
Freddie Wadling,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Brand Nubian,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Au Pairs,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Stetsasonic,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Agitation Free,
Soul Sonic Force,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Von Mondo,
Hardrive,
Spoonie Gee,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Moleskins,
The Techniques,
Amon Düül II,
AZ,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Bad Manners,
Porter Ricks,
Gang Green,
The Remains,
Kerri Chandler,
U.S. Maple,
T. Rex,
L. Decosne,
Black Sheep,
Jeru the Damaja,
John Holt,
Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire.
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.