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 Saudi Arabia and from Bremen.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Fear to the funk 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 Siglo XX. All the underground hits.
All Black Pus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minor Threat record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 snare and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun Ra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tim Buckley,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Dark Day,
The Leaves,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Eyeless In Gaza,
David McCallum,
Man Parrish,
Qualms,
Bush Tetras,
The Skatalites,
Duran Duran,
Absolute Body Control,
Pulsallama,
The Misunderstood,
Gastr Del Sol,
Minor Threat,
Bobby Sherman,
Sister Nancy,
Pagans,
Sandy B,
F. McDonald,
Jerry's Kids,
Marvin Gaye,
Technova,
New Age Steppers,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Angry Samoans,
The Doobie Brothers,
Mars,
PIL,
Liliput,
Sun City Girls,
Flash Fearless,
Lyres,
Funkadelic,
The Pretty Things,
New York Dolls,
Lee Hazlewood,
John Holt,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Techniques,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Scion,
L. Decosne,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Sex Pistols,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Television,
Metal Thangz,
Echospace,
The Divine Comedy,
Swell Maps,
Ronan,
Nick Fraelich,
Swans,
The American Breed,
Archie Shepp,
Vainqueur, Vainqueur, Vainqueur, Vainqueur.
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.