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 Nicaragua and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 mellotron 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 Neil Young & Crazy Horse to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Japan. All the underground hits.
All This Heat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Unwound record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Susan Cadogan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lower 48,
Hoover,
Wings,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Bush Tetras,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Monks,
Ultimate Spinach,
Masters at Work,
Matthew Halsall,
Mad Mike,
Patti Smith,
Livin' Joy,
Underground Resistance,
Swell Maps,
Guru Guru,
Drexciya,
The Divine Comedy,
Saccharine Trust,
Whodini,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Nirvana,
Shoche,
David McCallum,
Silicon Teens,
Boz Scaggs,
Arcadia,
Rufus Thomas,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Tomorrow,
Fatback Band,
Magazine,
Supertramp,
Lou Reed,
Rod Modell,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Ituana,
Peter & Gordon,
The Five Americans,
Barrington Levy,
The Cure,
Tropical Tobacco,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Yusef Lateef,
Donny Hathaway,
Scratch Acid,
Rites of Spring,
Davy DMX,
Shuggie Otis,
Soulsonic Force,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Mantronix,
Leonard Cohen,
Josef K,
Mission of Burma,
Glenn Branca, Glenn Branca, Glenn Branca, Glenn Branca.
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.