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 Suriname and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 spring reverb 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 Skriet to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Thompson Twins. All the underground hits.
All Whodini tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fifty Foot Hose record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Derrick Morgan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Average White Band,
Sparks,
the Sonics,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Reuben Wilson,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
AZ,
Soul II Soul,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Roxette,
The Human League,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Whodini,
Henry Cow,
Max Romeo,
Spoonie Gee,
MDC,
Sound Behaviour,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Vainqueur,
Section 25,
Zapp,
The Fall,
Nils Olav,
Altered Images,
Sun Ra,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Talk Talk,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Real Kids,
Goldenarms,
Guru Guru,
The Five Americans,
DJ Style,
Monks,
Bizarre Inc.,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Mad Mike,
The Victims,
Throbbing Gristle,
EPMD,
Saccharine Trust,
Swell Maps,
Dawn Penn,
Hashim,
The Electric Prunes,
The Knickerbockers,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Bob Dylan,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Evens,
Wire,
The Stooges,
Ornette Coleman,
Procol Harum,
Delta 5,
UT,
Funkadelic,
Organ,
Pierre Henry,
The Cramps,
Little Man, Little Man, Little Man, Little Man.
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.