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 East Timor and from Philadelphia.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 The Zeros to the grunge 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 The Seeds. All the underground hits.
All The Alarm Clocks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roger Hodgson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 guitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scan 7 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Country Teasers,
Loose Ends,
The Trojans,
Barbara Tucker,
Chris & Cosey,
Eddi Front,
PIL,
Magma,
Yellowson,
Khruangbin,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Barrington Levy,
Robert Wyatt,
Scott Walker,
The Vogues,
Urselle,
New Order,
The Real Kids,
The Victims,
Joey Negro,
Brand Nubian,
The Stooges,
The Gories,
JFA,
Liliput,
Hasil Adkins,
Subhumans,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Aural Exciters,
Hardrive,
The Smiths,
Clear Light,
Spoonie Gee,
This Heat,
Davy DMX,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Ash Ra Tempel,
the Normal,
Gil Scott Heron,
Zero Boys,
Second Layer,
Banda Bassotti,
Ice-T,
Oblivians,
Deadbeat,
Reagan Youth,
Anakelly,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Scientists,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Erasure,
Youth Brigade,
Boz Scaggs,
Minnie Riperton,
Lou Christie,
Wire,
Shoche,
Man Eating Sloth,
Amazonics,
Peter and Kerry,
New York Dolls, New York Dolls, New York Dolls, New York Dolls.
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.