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 Cuba and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 Kevin Saunderson to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 a-ha. All the underground hits.
All Bobby Byrd tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Donald Byrd record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 marimba and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soulsonic Force record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ornette Coleman,
Parry Music,
Amon Düül II,
Scrapy,
The Slits,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Wings,
Sex Pistols,
June Days,
Dorothy Ashby,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
DJ Style,
James White and The Blacks,
Unrelated Segments,
The Divine Comedy,
La Düsseldorf,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Television,
Joy Division,
Slave,
Crime,
the Fania All-Stars,
Lungfish,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Archie Shepp,
Roy Ayers,
The Tremeloes,
LL Cool J,
UT,
Bad Manners,
The Smiths,
Jeff Lynne,
Kerri Chandler,
The Evens,
Ultravox,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Martian,
The Trojans,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Audionom,
Moby Grape,
Dennis Brown,
China Crisis,
Slick Rick,
The Kinks,
Oblivians,
The Music Machine,
D'Angelo,
Fluxion,
Frankie Knuckles,
Toni Rubio,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Misunderstood,
Tom Boy,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Brand Nubian,
Quadrant,
Jawbox,
Sound Behaviour,
The Victims,
The Gun Club, The Gun Club, The Gun Club, The Gun Club.
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.