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 Madagascar and from Madrid.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1970 at the first Onyeabor practice in a loft in Enugu.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Cameo to the punk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 The Last Poets. All the underground hits.
All Essential Logic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aural Exciters 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camouflage record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Youth Brigade,
Guru Guru,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Fatback Band,
The Trojans,
Stereo Dub,
Derrick Morgan,
T.S.O.L.,
Excepter,
Sun City Girls,
The Gun Club,
Television,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Tremeloes,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Stockholm Monsters,
Goldenarms,
Oblivians,
the Slits,
Radiopuhelimet,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Severed Heads,
Scrapy,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Barracudas,
Robert Wyatt,
The Skatalites,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Inner City,
Japan,
The Dead C,
Cluster,
Barrington Levy,
Little Man,
Michelle Simonal,
Slick Rick,
Fugazi,
New Order,
Make Up,
Joe Finger,
Index,
Procol Harum,
Charles Mingus,
Von Mondo,
The Doors,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Audionom,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Piero Umiliani,
Mark Hollis,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Maleditus Sound,
Iggy Pop,
Dead Boys,
Delta 5,
Hardrive,
Aural Exciters,
Joyce Sims,
Eric Copeland,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog.
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.