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 Libya and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Mumbai.
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 mellotron 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 Idris Muhammad to the grime 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 New Order. All the underground hits.
All Pharoah Sanders tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Slick Rick 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Piero Umiliani record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Avey Tare,
Little Man,
DJ Style,
In Retrospect,
Lebanon Hanover,
Pere Ubu,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Ponytail,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
June Days,
Bizarre Inc.,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Velvet Underground,
Sister Nancy,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Blossom Toes,
Section 25,
Gang of Four,
the Bar-Kays,
The Skatalites,
EPMD,
Kaleidoscope,
The Star Department,
The Fortunes,
Cameo,
Hashim,
Harmonia,
Young Marble Giants,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Urselle,
The Evens,
Thompson Twins,
Bush Tetras,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Fire Engines,
Soul II Soul,
Dawn Penn,
Robert Görl,
The Walker Brothers,
Eve St. Jones,
Lou Reed,
Max Romeo,
Pierre Henry,
The Shadows of Knight,
Mark Hollis,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Searchers,
Intrusion,
Jimmy McGriff,
Gong,
Flamin' Groovies,
Visage,
Wire,
Alison Limerick,
T.S.O.L.,
The Electric Prunes,
Sarah Menescal,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Ten City,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Happenings,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.