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 Poland and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Peter and Kerry to the rap 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 Skaos. All the underground hits.
All Teenage Jesus and the Jerks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Von Mondo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 marimba and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nirvana record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Derrick Morgan,
Boogie Down Productions,
Dave Gahan,
Arcadia,
Lindisfarne,
Skarface,
The Sound,
Livin' Joy,
Robert Hood,
Agent Orange,
Archie Shepp,
Animal Collective,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Joensuu 1685,
Minny Pops,
The Smiths,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Gastr Del Sol,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Kerri Chandler,
The Dirtbombs,
Prince Buster,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Lakeside,
Dennis Brown,
Wally Richardson,
Ice-T,
Joey Negro,
Gabor Szabo,
Jeff Lynne,
Spandau Ballet,
The Neon Judgement,
Terry Callier,
Quadrant,
Freddie Wadling,
Frankie Knuckles,
Organ,
The Grass Roots,
Cal Tjader,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
John Foxx,
Alton Ellis,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Mojo Men,
Wire,
The Wake,
Silicon Teens,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Sister Nancy,
The Flesh Eaters,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Au Pairs,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Heaven 17,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Audionom,
The Electric Prunes,
Suburban Knight,
FM Einheit,
Yellowson,
Rhythm & Sound,
Matthew Halsall, Matthew Halsall, Matthew Halsall, Matthew Halsall.
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.