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 Palau and from Winnipeg.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Fire Engines to the punk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Youth Brigade. All the underground hits.
All Pantaleimon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gregory Isaacs 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Archie Shepp record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter & Gordon,
CMW,
Ultravox,
Joe Finger,
Mary Jane Girls,
Connie Case,
Animal Collective,
Moss Icon,
Cecil Taylor,
Jacques Brel,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Lower 48,
Jacob Miller,
Isaac Hayes,
Wire,
The Kinks,
Danielle Patucci,
Slave,
Minnie Riperton,
Sonic Youth,
Neu!,
Surgeon,
Guru Guru,
Camouflage,
The Moody Blues,
The Leaves,
Barrington Levy,
Can,
Reagan Youth,
Urselle,
Juan Atkins,
Subhumans,
Pulsallama,
Donny Hathaway,
Henry Cow,
Tomorrow,
Grauzone,
Minny Pops,
JFA,
World's Most,
Erykah Badu,
Ten City,
Skaos,
The Busters,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
the Normal,
Newcleus,
The Dead C,
Joy Division,
Toni Rubio,
The Golliwogs,
Agent Orange,
Cymande,
OOIOO,
Black Sheep,
Joe Smooth,
Blake Baxter,
China Crisis,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Barbara Tucker,
the Swans,
Alison Limerick,
Yusef Lateef, Yusef Lateef, Yusef Lateef, Yusef Lateef.
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.