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 Georgia and from Lyon.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the oboe 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 Kayak to the grunge 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 Neil Young & Crazy Horse. All the underground hits.
All the Swans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gun Club record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 guitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lalo Schifrin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Section 25,
The Knickerbockers,
Sonic Youth,
The Smoke,
The New Christs,
The Busters,
Soul II Soul,
Arcadia,
K-Klass,
Excepter,
Wings,
Kenny Larkin,
The Invisible,
Cameo,
Cecil Taylor,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Zeros,
Fad Gadget,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Jandek,
FM Einheit,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
John Cale,
Black Flag,
Boogie Down Productions,
Albert Ayler,
The J.B.'s,
Barrington Levy,
The Moody Blues,
Reagan Youth,
London Community Gospel Choir,
PIL,
The Human League,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Sam Rivers,
Unwound,
Rufus Thomas,
Sound Behaviour,
Ten City,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Surgeon,
Prince Buster,
Gong,
New Order,
Camouflage,
Anthony Braxton,
Man Eating Sloth,
Stereo Dub,
Althea and Donna,
Suicide,
The Techniques,
Kas Product,
Pet Shop Boys,
Stetsasonic,
The Fortunes,
Archie Shepp,
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Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Jerry's Kids,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Star Department,
John Lydon,
Drive Like Jehu,
Slick Rick, Slick Rick, Slick Rick, Slick Rick.
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.