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 Sweden and from Jakarta.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 linndrum 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 Organ to the techno 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 Blossom Toes. All the underground hits.
All Duran Duran tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Niagra 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aswad record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Pulsallama,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Henry Cow,
The Martian,
The Cramps,
EPMD,
Rites of Spring,
Lindisfarne,
Nils Olav,
CMW,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Siglo XX,
Ronan,
Interpol,
Make Up,
Lou Reed,
Aaron Thompson,
Fela Kuti,
Eli Mardock,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Carl Craig,
Sister Nancy,
Bobby Byrd,
PIL,
Robert Görl,
Neu!,
X-102,
Lee Hazlewood,
Crispy Ambulance,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Slick Rick,
Clear Light,
Royal Trux,
The Evens,
Big Daddy Kane,
Graham Central Station,
Au Pairs,
Oneida,
Mary Jane Girls,
D'Angelo,
Drexciya,
Sonic Youth,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Standells,
Flipper,
The Moleskins,
Easy Going,
Blake Baxter,
Lalo Schifrin,
Sight & Sound,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Brass Construction,
Lakeside,
T. Rex,
Lightning Bolt,
Accadde A,
Bluetip,
The Cowsills,
Bob Dylan,
Animal Collective,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux.
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.