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 Congo and from New York.
But I was there.
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I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the theremin 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 Sonny Sharrock to the funk 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 The Dead C. All the underground hits.
All Selector Dub Narcotic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Television 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Janne Schatter record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
MC5,
Soul II Soul,
JFA,
The Monochrome Set,
Skriet,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Can,
R.M.O.,
a-ha,
Deepchord,
The Fall,
Grandmaster Flash,
Sonny Sharrock,
Bluetip,
Joe Smooth,
Duran Duran,
Minny Pops,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Andrew Hill,
Sixth Finger,
La Düsseldorf,
Symarip,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Rites of Spring,
Quantec,
MDC,
Khruangbin,
Gil Scott Heron,
A Certain Ratio,
Freddie Wadling,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Massinfluence,
Matthew Halsall,
Junior Murvin,
Skarface,
Rapeman,
The Five Americans,
Alphaville,
Archie Shepp,
Metal Thangz,
Ornette Coleman,
Godley & Creme,
Quando Quango,
Lakeside,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Velvet Underground,
Scion,
Sandy B,
Mo-Dettes,
kango's stein massive,
Theoretical Girls,
Ultra Naté,
Jerry's Kids,
Judy Mowatt,
Aaron Thompson,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Ludus,
Harry Pussy,
Gong,
China Crisis,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience.
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.