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 China and from Salvador.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Soft Machine to the grime kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Amon Düül. All the underground hits.
All Leonard Cohen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Sonics 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a La Düsseldorf record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Q65,
Boogie Down Productions,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
New Order,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Jandek,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Eve St. Jones,
The Kinks,
Jacob Miller,
The Martian,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Model 500,
Brothers Johnson,
Matthew Halsall,
Prince Buster,
Morten Harket,
Deakin,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Invisible,
Black Sheep,
Be Bop Deluxe,
June Days,
DNA,
Rotary Connection,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Little Man,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Walker Brothers,
The Knickerbockers,
The Vogues,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Max Romeo,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Janne Schatter,
Ronnie Foster,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Jeff Lynne,
Arcadia,
Roy Ayers,
the Association,
U.S. Maple,
Oblivians,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Dave Gahan,
Rufus Thomas,
Man Parrish,
Vladislav Delay,
Minny Pops,
Agitation Free,
The Fugs,
Lindisfarne,
Roger Hodgson,
Tears for Fears,
Los Fastidios,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Gap Band,
Minor Threat,
Delta 5,
Stetsasonic,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band.
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.