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 Guatemala and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Durutti Column to the electroclash 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 Dark Day. All the underground hits.
All Pulsallama tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gil Scott Heron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David Bowie,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Detroit Cobras,
Motorama,
Absolute Body Control,
Chris Corsano,
Robert Görl,
Ten City,
Zero Boys,
Dave Gahan,
The Vogues,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Yazoo,
The J.B.'s,
Mr. Review,
Lindisfarne,
Deakin,
Ituana,
Skarface,
The Gladiators,
Eric Dolphy,
Minnie Riperton,
Peter & Gordon,
Glenn Branca,
The Cramps,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
D'Angelo,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Blake Baxter,
Jacob Miller,
The Litter,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
David McCallum,
Sam Rivers,
Davy DMX,
AZ,
Second Layer,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Porter Ricks,
Bootsy Collins,
Stockholm Monsters,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Lyres,
Radiohead,
Thee Headcoats,
Schoolly D,
Siglo XX,
Tropical Tobacco,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Black Dice,
Grey Daturas,
the Germs,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Lower 48,
Quantec,
Television,
Scan 7,
The Blues Magoos,
Johnny Osbourne,
Gregory Isaacs,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.