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 Sierra Leone and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 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 Sunsets and Hearts to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Lucky Dragons. All the underground hits.
All Godley & Creme tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every These Immortal Souls record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a This Heat record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Toni Rubio,
Godley & Creme,
Stetsasonic,
Pussy Galore,
Little Man,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Bang On A Can,
The J.B.'s,
Marcia Griffiths,
Minutemen,
Andrew Hill,
Television,
the Soft Cell,
The Detroit Cobras,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Y Pants,
Jacques Brel,
The Gap Band,
Lindisfarne,
China Crisis,
June Days,
FM Einheit,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Selecter,
L. Decosne,
Rakim,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Sparks,
the Sonics,
Drive Like Jehu,
Glenn Branca,
The Martian,
Tom Boy,
Warren Ellis,
Ossler,
X-101,
Icehouse,
Neu!,
Siglo XX,
Morten Harket,
The Dirtbombs,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Bizarre Inc.,
Model 500,
Symarip,
Sugar Minott,
Max Romeo,
Matthew Bourne,
a-ha,
Minor Threat,
Minnie Riperton,
Judy Mowatt,
Mark Hollis,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Velvet Underground,
The Invisible,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Gabor Szabo,
Tommy Roe,
Nick Fraelich, Nick Fraelich, Nick Fraelich, Nick Fraelich.
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.