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 Denmark and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the 808 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 The Neon Judgement to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 New York Dolls. All the underground hits.
All Fear tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Livin' Joy 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Matthew Halsall record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kas Product,
The Victims,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
World's Most,
The Golliwogs,
David McCallum,
Fela Kuti,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Los Fastidios,
Ossler,
Piero Umiliani,
Althea and Donna,
Boz Scaggs,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Motions,
The Residents,
Kerrie Biddell,
Minutemen,
Public Enemy,
The Happenings,
Todd Rundgren,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Dirtbombs,
Country Teasers,
Ultimate Spinach,
Japan,
The Slackers,
Glambeats Corp.,
Soul II Soul,
The Remains,
June Days,
Rotary Connection,
Harry Pussy,
Matthew Bourne,
Stiv Bators,
Flash Fearless,
Magazine,
Minor Threat,
Surgeon,
Delon & Dalcan,
Motorama,
Funky Four + One,
Sam Rivers,
E-Dancer,
Gichy Dan,
X-102,
Drive Like Jehu,
Lalo Schifrin,
Minnie Riperton,
Cheater Slicks,
Marc Almond,
The Selecter,
DJ Sneak,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Toasters,
JFA,
Public Image Ltd.,
Stockholm Monsters,
Lower 48, Lower 48, Lower 48, Lower 48.
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.