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 Micronesia and from Houston.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Bauhaus to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Outsiders. All the underground hits.
All Johnny Clarke tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nation of Ulysses record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sarah Menescal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Matthew Halsall,
Roxy Music,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Walker Brothers,
Delon & Dalcan,
Crime,
Crash Course in Science,
Bill Wells,
Wasted Youth,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Radiopuhelimet,
David McCallum,
The Real Kids,
The Searchers,
Flipper,
Delta 5,
One Last Wish,
Amon Düül,
Amazonics,
Kurtis Blow,
UT,
Pantaleimon,
DJ Style,
June of 44,
E-Dancer,
Nick Fraelich,
Freddie Wadling,
Aaron Thompson,
Franke,
World's Most,
Sixth Finger,
The Grass Roots,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Althea and Donna,
Ponytail,
Khruangbin,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Morten Harket,
Simply Red,
Johnny Clarke,
Faraquet,
the Swans,
Bad Manners,
Con Funk Shun,
Bill Near,
Terrestrial Tones,
Bang On A Can,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Happenings,
Peter & Gordon,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Mummies,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Sugar Minott,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Dirtbombs,
Lindisfarne,
Boogie Down Productions,
Tropical Tobacco,
Urselle,
Rakim,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo.
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.