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 Tuvalu and from Jakarta.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the 808 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 Basic Channel to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo. All the underground hits.
All The Mighty Diamonds tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eric Dolphy 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Slits record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dawn Penn,
Erasure,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Mad Mike,
The Selecter,
the Association,
The Pop Group,
Bootsy Collins,
Bauhaus,
The Residents,
Toni Rubio,
New Age Steppers,
John Foxx,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Accadde A,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Nas,
The Blackbyrds,
U.S. Maple,
Boogie Down Productions,
Liliput,
Traffic Nightmare,
Pussy Galore,
Eli Mardock,
Brothers Johnson,
Ludus,
John Holt,
Roy Ayers,
a-ha,
Eyeless In Gaza,
OOIOO,
Model 500,
Derrick Morgan,
The Fire Engines,
Black Pus,
Metal Thangz,
Quantec,
Gang of Four,
The Cramps,
Bang On A Can,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Whodini,
Carl Craig,
Stereo Dub,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Index,
the Sonics,
Crime,
Aaron Thompson,
Gang Starr,
Wasted Youth,
Darondo,
Blake Baxter,
The Wake,
Alphaville,
Public Image Ltd.,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Chris Corsano,
Duran Duran,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Pulsallama,
Sandy B,
Arthur Verocai, Arthur Verocai, Arthur Verocai, Arthur Verocai.
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.