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 Norway and from New York.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 Schoolly D to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Agent Orange. All the underground hits.
All Interpol tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Electric Prunes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 synthesizer and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Todd Terry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gang Gang Dance,
Soul II Soul,
The Pretty Things,
Parry Music,
June Days,
Ornette Coleman,
Iggy Pop,
Jeff Mills,
Robert Wyatt,
Anakelly,
Camouflage,
Crash Course in Science,
Marshall Jefferson,
DJ Style,
David Bowie,
The Zeros,
Idris Muhammad,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Wolf Eyes,
Eve St. Jones,
Deadbeat,
the Association,
David Axelrod,
Ponytail,
Eden Ahbez,
Easy Going,
Judy Mowatt,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Colin Newman,
The Move,
The Gun Club,
R.M.O.,
The Techniques,
Alison Limerick,
Kenny Larkin,
Soul Sonic Force,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The United States of America,
Cybotron,
T.S.O.L.,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Swans,
The Red Krayola,
Wally Richardson,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Au Pairs,
Lou Reed,
The Mummies,
Aswad,
Panda Bear,
Fad Gadget,
X-101,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Bobby Womack,
Thompson Twins,
Television,
Sun City Girls,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs.
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.