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 United Kingdom and from Halifax.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 chamberlin 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 The Velvet Underground to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 MC5. All the underground hits.
All Gastr Del Sol tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minnie Riperton record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Flash Fearless record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Adolescents,
David Bowie,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Spoonie Gee,
Soul II Soul,
ABC,
Gang Starr,
Oneida,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Nation of Ulysses,
Blake Baxter,
Gregory Isaacs,
F. McDonald,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Kool Moe Dee,
David McCallum,
Lou Christie,
Khruangbin,
a-ha,
The Mummies,
Excepter,
Barry Ungar,
Rod Modell,
Joe Finger,
PIL,
Bill Near,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Residents,
The Dead C,
Scion,
Terrestrial Tones,
T.S.O.L.,
Jacob Miller,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Roger Hodgson,
Section 25,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Warren Ellis,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Lakeside,
Connie Case,
Q65,
Maurizio,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Boredoms,
The Techniques,
Parry Music,
Michelle Simonal,
Barbara Tucker,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Echospace,
Schoolly D,
E-Dancer,
Chrome,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Durutti Column,
Jesper Dahlback,
Dave Gahan,
Siglo XX,
Gerry Rafferty,
Nick Fraelich,
Brand Nubian, Brand Nubian, Brand Nubian, Brand Nubian.
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.