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 Belize and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Das Ding to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Young Marble Giants. All the underground hits.
All Archie Shepp tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Little Man 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 rhodes and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Outsiders,
Godley & Creme,
Ituana,
Rotary Connection,
Lower 48,
Easy Going,
The Pretty Things,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Terry Callier,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
X-101,
Slave,
Interpol,
Freddie Wadling,
Mandrill,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Alarm Clocks,
It's A Beautiful Day,
the Bar-Kays,
Tropical Tobacco,
Underground Resistance,
Khruangbin,
Brothers Johnson,
Electric Prunes,
Scion,
Depeche Mode,
MC5,
Andrew Hill,
T.S.O.L.,
Sam Rivers,
Wolf Eyes,
Camouflage,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Connie Case,
Minor Threat,
Morten Harket,
Pole,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Rakim,
Tim Buckley,
Black Flag,
Black Bananas,
Ludus,
Spoonie Gee,
The Gladiators,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Gun Club,
Neu!,
Audionom,
Aural Exciters,
Hardrive,
Sugar Minott,
The Saints,
The Grass Roots,
Eric B and Rakim,
Smog,
Flash Fearless,
Fela Kuti,
Blake Baxter,
The Fuzztones,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Victims, The Victims, The Victims, The Victims.
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.