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 Somalia and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the sitar 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 The Walker Brothers to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Easy Going. All the underground hits.
All Gastr Del Sol tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Moebius 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Sonics record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Johnny Clarke,
U.S. Maple,
Sister Nancy,
Kerri Chandler,
Mad Mike,
Crispian St. Peters,
Grandmaster Flash,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Massinfluence,
Sonic Youth,
Qualms,
Deakin,
E-Dancer,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Loose Ends,
The Doors,
Todd Rundgren,
Black Moon,
Kevin Saunderson,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Flamin' Groovies,
Bush Tetras,
Thompson Twins,
Au Pairs,
Jeff Lynne,
Bizarre Inc.,
Black Sheep,
Chrome,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Colin Newman,
Arab on Radar,
Laurel Aitken,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Tommy Roe,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Procol Harum,
The Tremeloes,
Liliput,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Slits,
The Trojans,
Crooked Eye,
Lakeside,
Brothers Johnson,
Pere Ubu,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Toasters,
Lee Hazlewood,
Ludus,
Von Mondo,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Pole,
Spoonie Gee,
Iggy Pop,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Blues Magoos,
Isaac Hayes,
Eric Copeland,
Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra.
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.