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 Switzerland and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 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 Tommy Roe to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Kool Moe Dee. All the underground hits.
All Masters at Work tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aloha Tigers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kerrie Biddell record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sandy B,
Reagan Youth,
Eve St. Jones,
Aaron Thompson,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Bill Near,
The Techniques,
DJ Style,
UT,
Livin' Joy,
Black Moon,
The Dave Clark Five,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Lindisfarne,
Warren Ellis,
Deepchord,
Pulsallama,
Dorothy Ashby,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Fatback Band,
James White and The Blacks,
Tomorrow,
Trumans Water,
Liliput,
FM Einheit,
Theoretical Girls,
David McCallum,
Aural Exciters,
Amon Düül II,
Max Romeo,
Roxy Music,
The Monochrome Set,
Neil Young,
Gerry Rafferty,
Carl Craig,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Raincoats,
MDC,
Barclay James Harvest,
Albert Ayler,
The Leaves,
New York Dolls,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Robert Görl,
OOIOO,
Banda Bassotti,
Public Image Ltd.,
Fad Gadget,
David Bowie,
Joe Finger,
Drive Like Jehu,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Eric Dolphy,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Groovy Waters,
Terry Callier,
Stereo Dub,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Cure,
Patti Smith,
the Sonics, the Sonics, the Sonics, the Sonics.
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.