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 Comoros and from Shanghai.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and London.
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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Carl Craig to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 J.B.'s. All the underground hits.
All Massinfluence tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every cv313 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 808 and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lalann record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joensuu 1685,
Robert Hood,
Lindisfarne,
The Fall,
Ohio Players,
Charles Mingus,
Black Bananas,
8 Eyed Spy,
Marshall Jefferson,
Boredoms,
Shuggie Otis,
Soft Cell,
Roy Ayers,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Dawn Penn,
Fad Gadget,
a-ha,
Con Funk Shun,
Banda Bassotti,
Negative Approach,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
the Sonics,
Kurtis Blow,
Newcleus,
Rod Modell,
The Litter,
Animal Collective,
Suburban Knight,
Nik Kershaw,
Duran Duran,
Popol Vuh,
Wasted Youth,
Bobby Byrd,
The Invisible,
The Mummies,
The Selecter,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Matthew Bourne,
The Smoke,
Tropical Tobacco,
Rekid,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Carl Craig,
Siglo XX,
Jimmy McGriff,
X-101,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Joey Negro,
John Cale,
Junior Murvin,
The Moleskins,
Sam Rivers,
T.S.O.L.,
Reuben Wilson,
These Immortal Souls,
Pantaleimon,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Byron Stingily,
Index,
Minor Threat,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu.
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You don't know what you really want.
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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.