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 Turkey and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
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 Dennis Brown to the rap 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 KRS-One. All the underground hits.
All Juan Atkins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Crash Course in Science record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a cv313 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Ultravox,
Swell Maps,
Warsaw,
Sight & Sound,
Magazine,
Lower 48,
Soul Sonic Force,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Electric Prunes,
Interpol,
Pole,
the Slits,
Fad Gadget,
Subhumans,
Masters at Work,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Gap Band,
The Mojo Men,
Tim Buckley,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Invisible,
Skaos,
Delta 5,
the Human League,
Deepchord,
Royal Trux,
Newcleus,
Kurtis Blow,
Animal Collective,
Juan Atkins,
Bronski Beat,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Tropical Tobacco,
Audionom,
The Fuzztones,
Brothers Johnson,
Susan Cadogan,
Tommy Roe,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Thee Headcoats,
Kevin Saunderson,
Connie Case,
Hashim,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Flipper,
ABBA,
Lakeside,
Dual Sessions,
Marmalade,
Davy DMX,
Eurythmics,
The Index,
Crime,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Nation of Ulysses,
Hoover,
David Bowie,
Siglo XX,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Tremeloes,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Jeff Mills, Jeff Mills, Jeff Mills, Jeff Mills.
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.