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 Turkey and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Philadelphia.
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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Marshall Jefferson to the grunge 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 Ohio Players. All the underground hits.
All The Gap Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Black Moon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a synthesizer 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 organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sonic Youth,
Zero Boys,
Spoonie Gee,
Interpol,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Mandrill,
Kenny Larkin,
Agitation Free,
Flipper,
Quadrant,
Television Personalities,
Roxy Music,
Gregory Isaacs,
Boogie Down Productions,
Lindisfarne,
Los Fastidios,
Qualms,
Alison Limerick,
The Busters,
Faust,
Bob Dylan,
Royal Trux,
Rotary Connection,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Kayak,
Josef K,
The Blues Magoos,
Pulsallama,
U.S. Maple,
Crash Course in Science,
Fluxion,
The Moleskins,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Standells,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Outsiders,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Grandmaster Flash,
Harpers Bizarre,
James White and The Blacks,
Grey Daturas,
The Red Krayola,
Rosa Yemen,
X-Ray Spex,
Babytalk,
Index,
Deepchord,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Heaven 17,
The Smiths,
Pierre Henry,
Hoover,
Radiohead,
Idris Muhammad,
Visage,
Darondo,
Lightning Bolt,
In Retrospect, In Retrospect, In Retrospect, In Retrospect.
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.