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 Bahrain and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 organ 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 Thee Headcoats to the funk 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 Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme. All the underground hits.
All Minny Pops tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Mighty Diamonds record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a DJ Sneak record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Flipper,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Monks,
The Leaves,
The Buckinghams,
Sonny Sharrock,
Joy Division,
Mark Hollis,
Wasted Youth,
Terry Callier,
The Sonics,
Hashim,
Funkadelic,
The Monochrome Set,
Rod Modell,
Livin' Joy,
James White and The Blacks,
Aaron Thompson,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The J.B.'s,
Scion,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Vogues,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Zero Boys,
Leonard Cohen,
Deadbeat,
Wire,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Alphaville,
Swell Maps,
L. Decosne,
Technova,
PIL,
Hasil Adkins,
Todd Terry,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Names,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Happenings,
Sight & Sound,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Maurizio,
Dark Day,
The Martian,
Todd Rundgren,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Scientists,
Brothers Johnson,
Negative Approach,
This Heat,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Ultra Naté,
Eric Copeland,
T. Rex,
Soul Sonic Force,
Tim Buckley,
The Mummies,
June Days, June Days, June Days, June Days.
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.