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 Belarus and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Tehran.
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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the marimba 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 Intrusion to the grime kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Little Man. All the underground hits.
All Davy DMX tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gichy Dan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 snare and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Frankie Knuckles record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Anthony Braxton,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Sarah Menescal,
The J.B.'s,
Royal Trux,
Dual Sessions,
Lungfish,
the Swans,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Leaves,
China Crisis,
Dorothy Ashby,
Johnny Clarke,
Joe Finger,
Altered Images,
DNA,
Negative Approach,
Erykah Badu,
The Dirtbombs,
Junior Murvin,
Technova,
Lou Christie,
Roxy Music,
Young Marble Giants,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Fat Boys,
Grey Daturas,
Oneida,
The Toasters,
Chrome,
Maleditus Sound,
Buzzcocks,
The Grass Roots,
Thompson Twins,
Spoonie Gee,
Boogie Down Productions,
Scan 7,
The Offenders,
The Slits,
Barry Ungar,
Brand Nubian,
The Fugs,
Smog,
The Doors,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
UT,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Jimmy McGriff,
Lakeside,
Black Bananas,
Black Sheep,
Crime,
The Associates,
The Fire Engines,
Kurtis Blow,
EPMD,
the Association,
Lower 48,
Banda Bassotti,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Kenny Larkin,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, 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.