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 Slovenia and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 The Cure to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Unrelated Segments. All the underground hits.
All Con Funk Shun tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rotary Connection 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a snare 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 guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fluxion,
The Slackers,
Quadrant,
Donny Hathaway,
Prince Buster,
Hasil Adkins,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Offenders,
Whodini,
Matthew Halsall,
One Last Wish,
The Motions,
Eric Dolphy,
Delta 5,
The Busters,
Sex Pistols,
Yaz,
EPMD,
Grey Daturas,
Fifty Foot Hose,
X-Ray Spex,
Wally Richardson,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Ludus,
Malaria!,
Scan 7,
Big Daddy Kane,
Supertramp,
Barbara Tucker,
Aloha Tigers,
Cybotron,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Television,
Grauzone,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Erykah Badu,
Q and Not U,
Camberwell Now,
UT,
The Misunderstood,
Jeff Lynne,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
DJ Sneak,
Ituana,
Lakeside,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Unrelated Segments,
Graham Central Station,
Skarface,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Oblivians,
The Vogues,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Scratch Acid,
Isaac Hayes,
Roy Ayers,
Andrew Hill,
Chrome,
Leonard Cohen,
The Gun Club,
The Sound,
Second Layer,
Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions.
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.