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 Finland and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Jandek to the rap kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Barbara Tucker. All the underground hits.
All Jimmy McGriff tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Human League record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 sitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Newcleus record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Matthew Halsall,
Godley & Creme,
Nils Olav,
Ten City,
Freddie Wadling,
Mission of Burma,
Connie Case,
Charles Mingus,
The United States of America,
Mo-Dettes,
Scott Walker,
Cymande,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Erykah Badu,
Mary Jane Girls,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Accadde A,
Matthew Bourne,
Stetsasonic,
The Trojans,
The J.B.'s,
Crispy Ambulance,
Andrew Hill,
Q and Not U,
Royal Trux,
John Cale,
Organ,
Todd Rundgren,
The Golliwogs,
Tim Buckley,
Motorama,
Outsiders,
Ralphi Rosario,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
A Certain Ratio,
Amon Düül,
Khruangbin,
Talk Talk,
Derrick May,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Ken Boothe,
Tommy Roe,
Radiohead,
Babytalk,
Pole,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Slackers,
Alice Coltrane,
Pierre Henry,
Rotary Connection,
Eric B and Rakim,
Pet Shop Boys,
Infiniti,
June of 44,
Chris Corsano,
Jacques Brel,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Lalann,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Can,
Zapp,
Donald Byrd,
The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five.
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.