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 Slovakia and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 Mumbai and Tokyo.
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 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 Lou Reed 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 The Royal Family And The Poor to the rap 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 Massinfluence. All the underground hits.
All The Birthday Party tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Delta 5 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lucky Dragons record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Janne Schatter,
Joyce Sims,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Average White Band,
LL Cool J,
Shuggie Otis,
Scrapy,
Easy Going,
the Bar-Kays,
The Beau Brummels,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Ronnie Foster,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Techniques,
CMW,
Heaven 17,
Suburban Knight,
Godley & Creme,
Rufus Thomas,
Youth Brigade,
Shoche,
The Dave Clark Five,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Pantaleimon,
DJ Sneak,
Groovy Waters,
Donald Byrd,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Royal Trux,
Sight & Sound,
Unrelated Segments,
X-101,
David McCallum,
Q65,
Outsiders,
Robert Görl,
Harpers Bizarre,
Sam Rivers,
Eric Dolphy,
Max Romeo,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Spoonie Gee,
Harmonia,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Panda Bear,
Mandrill,
Swell Maps,
Bill Near,
Donny Hathaway,
Terry Callier,
Vladislav Delay,
Delon & Dalcan,
Slick Rick,
Audionom,
The Durutti Column,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Delta 5,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Mo-Dettes,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk.
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.