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 Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 guitar 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 Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks to the jazz 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 Negative Approach. All the underground hits.
All Sugar Minott tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every D'Angelo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 clarinet and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a It's A Beautiful Day record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
cv313,
Absolute Body Control,
The Martian,
David Bowie,
Thompson Twins,
Radiohead,
Steve Hackett,
Aloha Tigers,
Wings,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Sandy B,
Lyres,
Eric B and Rakim,
Surgeon,
Jacob Miller,
The Golliwogs,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Smiths,
Connie Case,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Vladislav Delay,
The Cowsills,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Pere Ubu,
kango's stein massive,
Lakeside,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Angry Samoans,
Adolescents,
Public Enemy,
Altered Images,
Rapeman,
Buzzcocks,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Massinfluence,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Soul II Soul,
T.S.O.L.,
Idris Muhammad,
Johnny Clarke,
Second Layer,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Drexciya,
Parry Music,
KRS-One,
Kenny Larkin,
Iggy Pop,
Monolake,
The Last Poets,
Tom Boy,
Ronnie Foster,
Eric Copeland,
Eddi Front,
Trumans Water,
Quantec,
Lalann,
Brand Nubian,
Janne Schatter,
World's Most,
Groovy Waters, Groovy Waters, Groovy Waters, Groovy Waters.
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.