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 Rwanda and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 Captain Beefheart 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 Andrew Hill to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 X-101. All the underground hits.
All Y Pants tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lalann record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Fortunes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Gil Scott Heron,
Camberwell Now,
Eric Dolphy,
Todd Rundgren,
Ultravox,
The Slits,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Velvet Underground,
La Düsseldorf,
The Victims,
D'Angelo,
Khruangbin,
The Wake,
Joy Division,
Ossler,
Ralphi Rosario,
Roxette,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Minnie Riperton,
Rufus Thomas,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Cramps,
The Detroit Cobras,
Ronan,
Traffic Nightmare,
EPMD,
Ronnie Foster,
Harmonia,
Intrusion,
Bill Wells,
Laurel Aitken,
Crash Course in Science,
Piero Umiliani,
Radiohead,
Stockholm Monsters,
L. Decosne,
Suicide,
Flash Fearless,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Dave Clark Five,
Fat Boys,
Mary Jane Girls,
Grauzone,
Moebius,
Althea and Donna,
Joe Smooth,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Fluxion,
Mo-Dettes,
Hardrive,
The Cowsills,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Absolute Body Control,
Dorothy Ashby,
the Human League,
Carl Craig,
Bob Dylan,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Star Department,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Half Japanese,
Big Daddy Kane, Big Daddy Kane, Big Daddy Kane, Big Daddy Kane.
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.