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 Guinea and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Tokyo.
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 chamberlin 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 Ituana to the funk 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 T.S.O.L.. All the underground hits.
All Rahsaan Roland Kirk tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 808 and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fad Gadget record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Toni Rubio,
The Smoke,
Warsaw,
Pole,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Move,
ABBA,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Lebanon Hanover,
Nick Fraelich,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Maleditus Sound,
Amon Düül,
Sugar Minott,
Bobby Womack,
The Invisible,
Talk Talk,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Eve St. Jones,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Main Source,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Yusef Lateef,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Echospace,
Eli Mardock,
Gang Green,
Hardrive,
Aaron Thompson,
Arthur Verocai,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Pharoah Sanders,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Fugs,
Theoretical Girls,
Pylon,
Morten Harket,
Man Parrish,
the Soft Cell,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
DJ Sneak,
Jeru the Damaja,
Lyres,
Susan Cadogan,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Wake,
T. Rex,
Massinfluence,
Leonard Cohen,
Vladislav Delay,
the Germs,
Motorama,
June of 44,
Shoche,
Blossom Toes,
OOIOO,
Sandy B,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Sexual Harrassment, Sexual Harrassment, Sexual Harrassment, Sexual Harrassment.
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.