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 Ukraine and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Faust to the rock kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Jesper Dahlbäck. All the underground hits.
All Easy Going tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mark Hollis 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tropical Tobacco record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Wasted Youth,
Erykah Badu,
Public Image Ltd.,
Infiniti,
The Barracudas,
Thompson Twins,
Jesper Dahlback,
A Certain Ratio,
Deepchord,
Niagra,
Matthew Bourne,
Wire,
Gastr Del Sol,
Zapp,
Jeru the Damaja,
Fela Kuti,
Peter and Kerry,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Ludus,
LL Cool J,
Scrapy,
Swell Maps,
Unwound,
Outsiders,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Smog,
Gil Scott Heron,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Gladiators,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
It's A Beautiful Day,
R.M.O.,
Intrusion,
Unrelated Segments,
Sexual Harrassment,
Soft Cell,
Bluetip,
Marshall Jefferson,
K-Klass,
La Düsseldorf,
Warren Ellis,
Graham Central Station,
Q65,
Eric B and Rakim,
Brass Construction,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Blackbyrds,
Mad Mike,
T. Rex,
Glenn Branca,
Can,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
the Fania All-Stars,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Prince Buster,
The Names,
Todd Terry,
Angry Samoans,
Make Up, Make Up, Make Up, Make Up.
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.