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 Denmark and from Madrid.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Maurizio to the techno 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 Talk Talk. All the underground hits.
All Nico tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Moby Grape 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gerry Rafferty record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pet Shop Boys,
Jesper Dahlback,
Soulsonic Force,
One Last Wish,
DJ Style,
The Searchers,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Harry Pussy,
Ituana,
Gregory Isaacs,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Electric Prunes,
Sam Rivers,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Terrestrial Tones,
Pharoah Sanders,
Young Marble Giants,
Minor Threat,
The Leaves,
Lee Hazlewood,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Kas Product,
Negative Approach,
Hasil Adkins,
Ludus,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Flipper,
The Divine Comedy,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Adolescents,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Fire Engines,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Gastr Del Sol,
Con Funk Shun,
Outsiders,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Fuzztones,
Colin Newman,
Talk Talk,
Kerri Chandler,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
B.T. Express,
Cecil Taylor,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Mantronix,
Dark Day,
Public Enemy,
Roxette,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Lindisfarne,
Symarip,
PIL,
Tubeway Army,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Eddi Front,
John Cale,
Joe Smooth,
Ronnie Foster, Ronnie Foster, Ronnie Foster, Ronnie Foster.
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.