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 Tunisia and from Mexico City.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Lalann to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Nas. All the underground hits.
All Danielle Patucci tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Leaves record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Public Image Ltd. record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Grauzone,
Morten Harket,
Marine Girls,
Fluxion,
Bobby Womack,
Panda Bear,
Kurtis Blow,
the Sonics,
Brass Construction,
The Last Poets,
The Shadows of Knight,
Ronan,
Excepter,
The Kinks,
Spandau Ballet,
CMW,
Alison Limerick,
Thee Headcoats,
The Index,
The Durutti Column,
Nirvana,
Leonard Cohen,
Kayak,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Moss Icon,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Sun Ra,
The Fortunes,
Lou Christie,
Maleditus Sound,
Masters at Work,
Siglo XX,
This Heat,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Harpers Bizarre,
MC5,
Bob Dylan,
Black Bananas,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Nico,
X-101,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Max Romeo,
Pussy Galore,
Fad Gadget,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Fugs,
Robert Wyatt,
The Busters,
48th St. Collective,
Drexciya,
Moebius,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Idris Muhammad,
kango's stein massive,
Easy Going,
Newcleus,
Dead Boys,
Boredoms,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
LL Cool J,
Tropical Tobacco, Tropical Tobacco, Tropical Tobacco, Tropical Tobacco.
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.