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 Czech Republic and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 guitar 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 Vladislav Delay to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Flipper. All the underground hits.
All Maleditus Sound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Royal Trux 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Big Daddy Kane record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roy Ayers,
Ice-T,
Qualms,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Unrelated Segments,
Easy Going,
Fela Kuti,
Barclay James Harvest,
Dave Gahan,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
L. Decosne,
T.S.O.L.,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Trojans,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Jeru the Damaja,
Todd Rundgren,
Fat Boys,
Nation of Ulysses,
Dark Day,
Brick,
Public Enemy,
Negative Approach,
Rakim,
Faust,
Peter & Gordon,
Motorama,
Henry Cow,
Jeff Lynne,
A Certain Ratio,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Motions,
Subhumans,
Spandau Ballet,
Massinfluence,
The Fuzztones,
La Düsseldorf,
Lungfish,
The Techniques,
Rekid,
The Smoke,
The Five Americans,
Eddi Front,
The Cure,
Alphaville,
Young Marble Giants,
Black Flag,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Moebius,
Pharoah Sanders,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
David Axelrod,
the Bar-Kays,
Graham Central Station,
Arthur Verocai,
Ultimate Spinach,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Vladislav Delay,
Nico,
Magazine,
Gong,
Blake Baxter,
James White and The Blacks, James White and The Blacks, James White and The Blacks, James White and The Blacks.
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.