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 Antigua and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 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 Quantec to the techno 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 Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx. All the underground hits.
All Siglo XX tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yusef Lateef 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 chamberlin and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Altered Images record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Matthew Halsall,
Black Pus,
Neu!,
Qualms,
Bob Dylan,
Aswad,
Junior Murvin,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Fortunes,
Warren Ellis,
Nico,
FM Einheit,
Con Funk Shun,
John Foxx,
Fear,
Jandek,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Nation of Ulysses,
Pantaleimon,
Von Mondo,
a-ha,
Radiohead,
The Move,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Barclay James Harvest,
Gang Green,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
X-Ray Spex,
Absolute Body Control,
Talk Talk,
Isaac Hayes,
Kayak,
Livin' Joy,
The Martian,
Icehouse,
Deepchord,
Amazonics,
The Residents,
Janne Schatter,
Das Ding,
David McCallum,
Black Sheep,
Gang of Four,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Alphaville,
Royal Trux,
John Cale,
Jeff Lynne,
Television Personalities,
Dual Sessions,
The Dirtbombs,
Tres Demented,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Infiniti,
Prince Buster,
Fluxion,
The Zeros,
The Black Dice,
Ituana,
Todd Rundgren,
Howard Jones,
The Pop Group,
Ten City,
Freddie Wadling, Freddie Wadling, Freddie Wadling, Freddie Wadling.
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.