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 Montenegro and from Stockholm.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Bremen.
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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Minutemen to the funk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Kerri Chandler. All the underground hits.
All The Jesus and Mary Chain tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Smiths record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a June Days record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Star Department,
Cluster,
Minnie Riperton,
Nation of Ulysses,
Drexciya,
the Normal,
Q65,
Maleditus Sound,
Tom Boy,
In Retrospect,
Negative Approach,
Lower 48,
Monolake,
The Black Dice,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Sound,
Flamin' Groovies,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Aloha Tigers,
Max Romeo,
Marine Girls,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Ultravox,
Pussy Galore,
Q and Not U,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Alarm Clocks,
Los Fastidios,
The Remains,
Radiopuhelimet,
Adolescents,
Unwound,
Donny Hathaway,
Smog,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Bobby Sherman,
Spoonie Gee,
The Count Five,
Malaria!,
Soul II Soul,
Glambeats Corp.,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Eric Dolphy,
the Germs,
Connie Case,
The Fall,
Reuben Wilson,
Man Eating Sloth,
Can,
David McCallum,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Saints,
Ituana,
Rufus Thomas,
Scratch Acid,
The Dirtbombs,
Ultimate Spinach,
MC5,
DJ Style,
Gong,
The Trojans,
The Neon Judgement, The Neon Judgement, The Neon Judgement, The Neon Judgement.
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.