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 St Lucia and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 JFA to the crunk 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 Sugar Minott. All the underground hits.
All Amon Düül II tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Lydon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 spring reverb and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a One Last Wish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Matthew Halsall,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Archie Shepp,
Sister Nancy,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Eric Dolphy,
Sixth Finger,
The Sound,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Motions,
Bill Near,
Sun Ra,
Scion,
Slick Rick,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Al Stewart,
Minnie Riperton,
the Bar-Kays,
Minny Pops,
Rod Modell,
Boz Scaggs,
Siglo XX,
Ronan,
The Fugs,
John Holt,
Shoche,
CMW,
the Soft Cell,
H. Thieme,
Moby Grape,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Offenders,
Sparks,
In Retrospect,
Schoolly D,
Kurtis Blow,
The Grass Roots,
Joe Smooth,
The Five Americans,
JFA,
Funky Four + One,
Derrick May,
Nas,
Flamin' Groovies,
Moebius,
X-101,
Jacques Brel,
Clear Light,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
T. Rex,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
the Fania All-Stars,
Ronnie Foster,
Funkadelic,
F. McDonald,
New Age Steppers,
June Days,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Buckinghams,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.