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 Paraguay and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Alton Ellis to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Rhythim Is Rhythim. All the underground hits.
All Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Liaisons Dangereuses record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Soft Cell,
Ronan,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Marmalade,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Eddi Front,
Piero Umiliani,
Andrew Hill,
Chrome,
Moby Grape,
Mary Jane Girls,
Q and Not U,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
a-ha,
Danielle Patucci,
Terry Callier,
Monks,
Lee Hazlewood,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Essential Logic,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Cameo,
Scott Walker,
Liliput,
Todd Rundgren,
kango's stein massive,
The Grass Roots,
Audionom,
Theoretical Girls,
DJ Style,
Ultravox,
Mars,
The Stooges,
Sugar Minott,
FM Einheit,
Anakelly,
The Slackers,
Janne Schatter,
Dead Boys,
Smog,
The Alarm Clocks,
Ralphi Rosario,
Blancmange,
Rakim,
The Dead C,
Prince Buster,
Goldenarms,
Monolake,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
John Lydon,
Eric Copeland,
The Standells,
Skarface,
Amon Düül,
Zapp,
Sonic Youth,
The Modern Lovers,
These Immortal Souls,
Ice-T,
The Five Americans,
Matthew Halsall, Matthew Halsall, Matthew Halsall, Matthew Halsall.
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.