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 Tonga and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Grandmaster Flash to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Frankie Knuckles. All the underground hits.
All Cybotron tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ice-T record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 an arpeggiator and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delon & Dalcan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mars,
The Evens,
Scott Walker,
Robert Wyatt,
Can,
Jawbox,
Jimmy McGriff,
Rhythm & Sound,
Rekid,
The Count Five,
The Pretty Things,
Lindisfarne,
Maleditus Sound,
The Smoke,
John Lydon,
kango's stein massive,
The Neon Judgement,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Magma,
Byron Stingily,
FM Einheit,
Rites of Spring,
Sällskapet,
Alison Limerick,
The Cramps,
One Last Wish,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Youth Brigade,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Soft Cell,
Schoolly D,
Guru Guru,
Hasil Adkins,
The Mojo Men,
Second Layer,
Pylon,
The Monochrome Set,
Agitation Free,
Sister Nancy,
Echospace,
Nas,
The Birthday Party,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Ohio Players,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
LL Cool J,
Roxy Music,
Grauzone,
The Music Machine,
Underground Resistance,
Blake Baxter,
Yaz,
The Walker Brothers,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Tremeloes,
Frankie Knuckles,
Marc Almond,
Blossom Toes,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth.
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.