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 Lebanon and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 Lou Reed 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 Danielle Patucci to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Country Teasers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jandek record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 güiro and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Beau Brummels record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
MDC,
Faraquet,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Drexciya,
Ludus,
Piero Umiliani,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
T. Rex,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Swans,
The Motions,
Toni Rubio,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Morten Harket,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Monochrome Set,
Popol Vuh,
Danielle Patucci,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Marine Girls,
The Skatalites,
Symarip,
Derrick May,
The Fortunes,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Average White Band,
Jacques Brel,
Graham Central Station,
Fugazi,
Flash Fearless,
Lou Reed,
Archie Shepp,
Hot Snakes,
The Shadows of Knight,
Cal Tjader,
Mantronix,
The Associates,
Prince Buster,
Sly & The Family Stone,
the Slits,
Suicide,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Deadbeat,
Donny Hathaway,
Alphaville,
Pagans,
Loose Ends,
The Selecter,
The Fall,
Funky Four + One,
Byron Stingily,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Althea and Donna,
Rekid,
Monks,
U.S. Maple,
Dual Sessions,
PIL,
Sun Ra,
Peter and Kerry,
Arcadia, Arcadia, Arcadia, Arcadia.
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.