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 Vietnam and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 güiro 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 Nirvana to the grunge kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Zapp. All the underground hits.
All Blossom Toes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every FM Einheit record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joensuu 1685 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alison Limerick,
Gang Green,
The Vogues,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
MC5,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
This Heat,
Barbara Tucker,
Massinfluence,
Sonic Youth,
John Lydon,
Scan 7,
Terry Callier,
Motorama,
John Coltrane,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Donald Byrd,
Camberwell Now,
Wasted Youth,
Banda Bassotti,
Brothers Johnson,
The Golliwogs,
The Stooges,
Mo-Dettes,
Guru Guru,
The Smoke,
Section 25,
Hashim,
The Durutti Column,
Soft Machine,
Pantaleimon,
H. Thieme,
Yellowson,
Scratch Acid,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Wire,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Black Pus,
The Saints,
Crash Course in Science,
X-Ray Spex,
Bob Dylan,
Gerry Rafferty,
Fugazi,
Soul II Soul,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Cluster,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Dead Boys,
The Skatalites,
Prince Buster,
the Fania All-Stars,
Sparks,
New Order,
The Smiths,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Happenings,
Alice Coltrane,
Liliput,
Aural Exciters,
Arthur Verocai,
Animal Collective, Animal Collective, Animal Collective, Animal Collective.
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.