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 South Africa and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 Soulsonic Force to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Liliput. All the underground hits.
All Bizarre Inc. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Smoke 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Curtis Mayfield record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Johnny Osbourne,
Isaac Hayes,
DNA,
World's Most,
The Neon Judgement,
Second Layer,
Chris Corsano,
Pere Ubu,
The Zeros,
Tommy Roe,
The New Christs,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Reuben Wilson,
In Retrospect,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Black Flag,
Arthur Verocai,
Kayak,
Letta Mbulu,
Harmonia,
Ten City,
Jandek,
Ponytail,
Motorama,
Sixth Finger,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Durutti Column,
Con Funk Shun,
Blossom Toes,
Negative Approach,
The Victims,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Sällskapet,
The Stooges,
Can,
Prince Buster,
Lucky Dragons,
The Seeds,
John Cale,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Marine Girls,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Roger Hodgson,
Max Romeo,
Marmalade,
Index,
Freddie Wadling,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Bobby Womack,
Sister Nancy,
Von Mondo,
Sonny Sharrock,
Ultravox,
a-ha,
Marshall Jefferson,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Monks,
Sex Pistols,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Yaz,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Shadows of Knight, The Shadows of Knight, The Shadows of Knight, The Shadows of Knight.
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.