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 Cyprus and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 arpeggiator 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 Fluxion to the grunge 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 Magma. All the underground hits.
All Jerry's Kids tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sight & Sound 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Shuggie Otis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Rosa Yemen,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Young Marble Giants,
In Retrospect,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Liliput,
Monks,
Andrew Hill,
Jeff Mills,
Severed Heads,
8 Eyed Spy,
Laurel Aitken,
Q65,
Marshall Jefferson,
Franke,
Junior Murvin,
Gregory Isaacs,
James White and The Blacks,
Hashim,
Harry Pussy,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Misunderstood,
Anthony Braxton,
Grey Daturas,
Black Sheep,
Panda Bear,
Isaac Hayes,
Minny Pops,
John Coltrane,
The Pop Group,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Darondo,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Thee Headcoats,
Lucky Dragons,
Amon Düül,
Traffic Nightmare,
Alison Limerick,
Animal Collective,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Technova,
Black Pus,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Fad Gadget,
The Happenings,
Babytalk,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Young Rascals,
Von Mondo,
Frankie Knuckles,
Alphaville,
Big Daddy Kane,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Fugs,
Jandek,
Funkadelic, Funkadelic, Funkadelic, Funkadelic.
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.