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 Bahrain and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the guitar 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 Rufus Thomas to the punk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Electric Prunes. All the underground hits.
All Terrestrial Tones tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Star Department record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a rhodes 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 mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Grass Roots,
Aloha Tigers,
Sight & Sound,
Max Romeo,
Matthew Halsall,
Gregory Isaacs,
New Order,
The Pop Group,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Neu!,
The Durutti Column,
The Neon Judgement,
The Blackbyrds,
The Move,
Slave,
Delon & Dalcan,
Royal Trux,
Pulsallama,
Stockholm Monsters,
Al Stewart,
The Litter,
Robert Hood,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Cheater Slicks,
Peter & Gordon,
Rufus Thomas,
Laurel Aitken,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Searchers,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Iggy Pop,
Byron Stingily,
Sun City Girls,
Colin Newman,
Curtis Mayfield,
Thompson Twins,
Nirvana,
T.S.O.L.,
The Modern Lovers,
Maleditus Sound,
Marshall Jefferson,
Idris Muhammad,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Crash Course in Science,
Lee Hazlewood,
MC5,
The Birthday Party,
The Black Dice,
Angry Samoans,
Zapp,
Skaos,
Ralphi Rosario,
Little Man,
Tim Buckley,
Kevin Saunderson,
Average White Band,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
DNA,
Vladislav Delay,
World's Most,
Sugar Minott,
Mission of Burma,
The Mummies,
Albert Ayler, Albert Ayler, Albert Ayler, Albert Ayler.
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.