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 Cambodia and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Jandek to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Soft Cell. All the underground hits.
All A Certain Ratio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soulsonic Force 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 mellotron and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun Ra Arkestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lebanon Hanover,
Slick Rick,
L. Decosne,
The Grass Roots,
The Offenders,
The Smoke,
cv313,
Oblivians,
Robert Hood,
Marine Girls,
Steve Hackett,
The Slackers,
Inner City,
Adolescents,
Davy DMX,
Dead Boys,
Stiv Bators,
Graham Central Station,
Tom Boy,
Television Personalities,
Kas Product,
Siglo XX,
Yaz,
Suburban Knight,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Nirvana,
Rekid,
Gerry Rafferty,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Livin' Joy,
Lou Christie,
Swell Maps,
Lou Reed,
Man Eating Sloth,
Gichy Dan,
Bootsy Collins,
The Dave Clark Five,
Morten Harket,
Khruangbin,
Henry Cow,
Byron Stingily,
Sarah Menescal,
Sister Nancy,
Outsiders,
Chrome,
Young Marble Giants,
The Standells,
MC5,
Spandau Ballet,
Underground Resistance,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The New Christs,
The Techniques,
Joey Negro,
Maleditus Sound,
The Mummies,
Lindisfarne,
Joensuu 1685,
Intrusion,
Cameo, Cameo, Cameo, Cameo.
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.