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 Mozambique and from Manila.
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 Columbus and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 guitar 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 Janne Schatter to the rap kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Y Pants. All the underground hits.
All Eli Mardock tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mantronix record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hardrive record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Fela Kuti,
Rosa Yemen,
Main Source,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Von Mondo,
Schoolly D,
Minnie Riperton,
UT,
The Doors,
Zero Boys,
Roger Hodgson,
Newcleus,
Suicide,
Ultimate Spinach,
June Days,
Rapeman,
Jeff Lynne,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Howard Jones,
Eric Copeland,
OOIOO,
The Fuzztones,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Fat Boys,
Crispian St. Peters,
Maleditus Sound,
Television Personalities,
Unrelated Segments,
KRS-One,
Lou Reed,
Sister Nancy,
Young Marble Giants,
Parry Music,
The Star Department,
Marvin Gaye,
The Names,
Ralphi Rosario,
JFA,
Reagan Youth,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Lyres,
The Stooges,
Patti Smith,
FM Einheit,
Saccharine Trust,
Animal Collective,
Agitation Free,
Scrapy,
Glambeats Corp.,
Yazoo,
Altered Images,
Das Ding,
Sixth Finger,
The Smiths,
Girls At Our Best!,
Dawn Penn,
Tommy Roe,
The New Christs,
Alphaville,
The Wake,
Ice-T,
Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew.
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.