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 Libya and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 Mumbai and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the theremin 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 Flipper to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell. All the underground hits.
All Derrick Morgan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soulsonic Force 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ludus record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DJ Sneak,
Rhythm & Sound,
Scratch Acid,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Laurel Aitken,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Joe Smooth,
Ituana,
Chrome,
Rites of Spring,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Qualms,
The Five Americans,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Associates,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Mark Hollis,
Derrick Morgan,
The Moody Blues,
The Last Poets,
Dual Sessions,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Golliwogs,
Basic Channel,
Sonny Sharrock,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
CMW,
The Music Machine,
the Sonics,
Aaron Thompson,
Animal Collective,
Warren Ellis,
John Lydon,
Television Personalities,
Minor Threat,
Rufus Thomas,
The Misunderstood,
Dennis Brown,
Sixth Finger,
Eric Dolphy,
Easy Going,
Tomorrow,
The Pretty Things,
Jerry's Kids,
Nik Kershaw,
Howard Jones,
Albert Ayler,
Aloha Tigers,
Khruangbin,
Scion,
10cc,
Clear Light,
Lucky Dragons,
Bill Wells,
The Human League,
The Fuzztones,
Crooked Eye,
Babytalk,
The Smiths,
David Axelrod,
The Monochrome Set,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter.
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.