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 Taiwan and from Jakarta.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Portland.
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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the marimba 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 Mojo Men to the techno 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 Camberwell Now. All the underground hits.
All Bobby Womack tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Slits record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 snare and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rakim record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Second Layer,
The Zeros,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Negative Approach,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Star Department,
Lakeside,
The Fall,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Pere Ubu,
Charles Mingus,
AZ,
The Dave Clark Five,
New Order,
Eurythmics,
Von Mondo,
Animal Collective,
Jandek,
Barry Ungar,
Harry Pussy,
The Sound,
Pierre Henry,
Skarface,
La Düsseldorf,
Kerrie Biddell,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Wasted Youth,
Trumans Water,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Popol Vuh,
Sparks,
Joe Smooth,
Max Romeo,
Shoche,
Mars,
10cc,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
June Days,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Graham Central Station,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Moebius,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
kango's stein massive,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Joe Finger,
Camouflage,
Clear Light,
The Cure,
Dennis Brown,
Moss Icon,
the Germs,
Leonard Cohen,
Iggy Pop,
the Swans,
Scan 7,
Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd..
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
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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.