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 Bosnia Herzegovina and from Accra.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Houston.
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 Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Techniques to the grunge kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 The Raincoats. All the underground hits.
All Tim Buckley tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Liliput record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Magma record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Standells,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
X-102,
The Techniques,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Bobby Womack,
Essential Logic,
MC5,
Charles Mingus,
Vladislav Delay,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Second Layer,
Vainqueur,
Cecil Taylor,
Lungfish,
Jerry's Kids,
R.M.O.,
Michelle Simonal,
AZ,
June of 44,
The Barracudas,
John Lydon,
F. McDonald,
One Last Wish,
cv313,
Grey Daturas,
Outsiders,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Scion,
Lou Christie,
Bang On A Can,
Funkadelic,
Thee Headcoats,
Prince Buster,
the Soft Cell,
The Count Five,
LL Cool J,
Aaron Thompson,
Con Funk Shun,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Peter and Kerry,
Eve St. Jones,
Althea and Donna,
The Leaves,
Cluster,
Amon Düül II,
Lower 48,
Monks,
Boogie Down Productions,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Adolescents,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Main Source,
Iggy Pop,
8 Eyed Spy,
Shuggie Otis,
Royal Trux,
Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick.
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.