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 Singapore and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the marimba 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 K-Klass to the rock 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 Pet Shop Boys. All the underground hits.
All David McCallum tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ituana 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
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 Barbara Tucker record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Matthew Halsall,
a-ha,
Heaven 17,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Grey Daturas,
Scan 7,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Max Romeo,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Country Teasers,
Half Japanese,
48th St. Collective,
Minny Pops,
Deepchord,
Khruangbin,
Mars,
Sound Behaviour,
The Stooges,
La Düsseldorf,
K-Klass,
Kaleidoscope,
The Smiths,
cv313,
Silicon Teens,
The American Breed,
Judy Mowatt,
Theoretical Girls,
Blake Baxter,
Kenny Larkin,
Quantec,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Index,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Tom Boy,
Lou Reed,
Bobby Sherman,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Blossom Toes,
Oneida,
Neu!,
Soulsonic Force,
Rufus Thomas,
Byron Stingily,
Delon & Dalcan,
Avey Tare,
Babytalk,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Tommy Roe,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Names,
Juan Atkins,
Kevin Saunderson,
Dawn Penn,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Intrusion,
The Human League,
Infiniti,
Iggy Pop,
Japan,
Frankie Knuckles,
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