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 Romania and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
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 the Fania All-Stars to the grime 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 Talk Talk. All the underground hits.
All Simply Red tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Swans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Audionom record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Janne Schatter,
Loose Ends,
Scratch Acid,
Grandmaster Flash,
Dual Sessions,
Ralphi Rosario,
Flamin' Groovies,
Chrome,
Ice-T,
Ohio Players,
The Birthday Party,
Ash Ra Tempel,
E-Dancer,
New Age Steppers,
The Standells,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Skatalites,
Newcleus,
Jerry's Kids,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
John Holt,
Erasure,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Count Five,
Grauzone,
Vladislav Delay,
Suburban Knight,
Easy Going,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Man Parrish,
The Gladiators,
Tim Buckley,
The Doors,
Soulsonic Force,
The Invisible,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Mr. Review,
The Residents,
Joyce Sims,
Patti Smith,
R.M.O.,
Howard Jones,
Fela Kuti,
The Walker Brothers,
Neu!,
Yusef Lateef,
Stereo Dub,
Amon Düül,
U.S. Maple,
Delta 5,
Yazoo,
The Victims,
Deakin,
Black Flag,
Joy Division,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Flash Fearless,
The Velvet Underground,
Throbbing Gristle, Throbbing Gristle, Throbbing Gristle, Throbbing Gristle.
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.