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 Mauritius and from Houston.
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 Lagos and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
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 X-102 to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Kurtis Blow. All the underground hits.
All Panda Bear tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Archie Shepp 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Cure record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joe Smooth,
Aloha Tigers,
Whodini,
Matthew Halsall,
Brand Nubian,
Reagan Youth,
DNA,
Joensuu 1685,
Q and Not U,
Lebanon Hanover,
Rufus Thomas,
Angry Samoans,
The Fire Engines,
Drive Like Jehu,
8 Eyed Spy,
Ultimate Spinach,
Oblivians,
The Leaves,
Absolute Body Control,
The Misunderstood,
Erasure,
Iggy Pop,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Gichy Dan,
Sound Behaviour,
Steve Hackett,
Japan,
Terrestrial Tones,
Franke,
Idris Muhammad,
Henry Cow,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Beau Brummels,
Harmonia,
Donny Hathaway,
Hot Snakes,
The Young Rascals,
Andrew Hill,
Sixth Finger,
Camberwell Now,
Soul II Soul,
Tommy Roe,
Danielle Patucci,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Trojans,
T. Rex,
Public Enemy,
Swell Maps,
Circle Jerks,
The Gun Club,
Jawbox,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Raincoats,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Searchers,
Public Image Ltd.,
48th St. Collective,
The Fall,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Mission of Burma,
Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy.
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.