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 Kuwait and from Accra.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 sitar 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 Henry Cow to the electroclash kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Average White Band. All the underground hits.
All Robert Görl tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Depeche Mode record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Underground Resistance record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Funkadelic,
Gang Gang Dance,
Nils Olav,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Mantronix,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
the Germs,
Donny Hathaway,
Wire,
a-ha,
The Red Krayola,
Moss Icon,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Minny Pops,
Duran Duran,
Lebanon Hanover,
Mr. Review,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Moby Grape,
Simply Red,
Buzzcocks,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Gichy Dan,
Alton Ellis,
Hardrive,
Curtis Mayfield,
the Normal,
Cameo,
Lower 48,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Sound Behaviour,
In Retrospect,
Stereo Dub,
The Dave Clark Five,
Faust,
The Walker Brothers,
The Misunderstood,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Harry Pussy,
Soul II Soul,
The Selecter,
B.T. Express,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Lightning Bolt,
Brick,
Alphaville,
Groovy Waters,
Jesper Dahlback,
Man Parrish,
Mission of Burma,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Gories,
Eve St. Jones,
Flipper,
Public Enemy,
Michelle Simonal,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Intrusion,
Altered Images,
Amon Düül II,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.