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 Uruguay and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Men They Couldn't Hang to the rap kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Warren Ellis. All the underground hits.
All Lower 48 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pet Shop Boys record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 guitar and a clarinet 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 theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jeff Lynne,
Rapeman,
Con Funk Shun,
Joyce Sims,
Jimmy McGriff,
Scrapy,
The Black Dice,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Soulsonic Force,
Fugazi,
Roxy Music,
Junior Murvin,
Urselle,
Rufus Thomas,
The Cure,
Theoretical Girls,
Monks,
Audionom,
The Standells,
The Toasters,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Delta 5,
Icehouse,
Procol Harum,
Simply Red,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Eric Copeland,
Brothers Johnson,
Rosa Yemen,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
John Lydon,
Jeff Mills,
Siglo XX,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
John Holt,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The New Christs,
Unrelated Segments,
Jesper Dahlback,
Electric Prunes,
The Litter,
Model 500,
Ten City,
F. McDonald,
Ronnie Foster,
The Seeds,
The Names,
Skaos,
Nik Kershaw,
The Moody Blues,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Modern Lovers,
Lalann,
Chris & Cosey,
Little Man,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Buckinghams,
the Soft Cell,
Desert Stars,
Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive.
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.