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 Iran and from Woodstock.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the guitar 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 Heavy D & The Boyz to the rap 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 Delta 5. All the underground hits.
All Kenny Larkin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eric B and Rakim 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lakeside record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jimmy McGriff,
The Cowsills,
Black Flag,
The Last Poets,
Joe Finger,
ABBA,
Inner City,
Black Moon,
Amon Düül,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
James White and The Blacks,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Q65,
Peter & Gordon,
Von Mondo,
Metal Thangz,
The Raincoats,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Slick Rick,
Ralphi Rosario,
Pylon,
Flipper,
Flamin' Groovies,
Franke,
The Moleskins,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Sonic Youth,
Groovy Waters,
Youth Brigade,
AZ,
The Monks,
Scientists,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Monochrome Set,
T.S.O.L.,
Archie Shepp,
Junior Murvin,
Alison Limerick,
Livin' Joy,
Unwound,
Wire,
The Trojans,
Chris Corsano,
Sandy B,
EPMD,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sexual Harrassment,
Ohio Players,
Gastr Del Sol,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Goldenarms,
Sight & Sound,
The Doors,
The Dirtbombs,
Arthur Verocai,
The Seeds,
Rapeman,
Nik Kershaw,
CMW,
The Dave Clark Five,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band.
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.