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 Guinea and from Stockholm.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Unwound to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Youth Brigade. All the underground hits.
All Nation of Ulysses tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Little Man 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 chamberlin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Unrelated Segments,
Glenn Branca,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Martian,
the Sonics,
Gang Gang Dance,
Pere Ubu,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Public Enemy,
Funky Four + One,
The Move,
Duran Duran,
Scrapy,
Japan,
Thee Headcoats,
Traffic Nightmare,
Procol Harum,
Lou Reed,
The Saints,
Blancmange,
Chris & Cosey,
The Victims,
The Durutti Column,
Schoolly D,
Alison Limerick,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Wake,
Television Personalities,
The Smiths,
The Toasters,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Avey Tare,
Alphaville,
Icehouse,
Clear Light,
John Lydon,
Index,
Main Source,
Reuben Wilson,
Girls At Our Best!,
Patti Smith,
Negative Approach,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Joey Negro,
Black Flag,
Y Pants,
The United States of America,
Severed Heads,
World's Most,
Grandmaster Flash,
Boredoms,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Franke,
Model 500,
B.T. Express,
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You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
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You don't know what you really want.
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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.