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 Malaysia and from Spokane.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 oboe 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 Sugar Minott to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Public Image Ltd.. All the underground hits.
All Pantytec tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lebanon Hanover 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Monochrome Set record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kerri Chandler,
Marcia Griffiths,
Black Flag,
The Modern Lovers,
Public Image Ltd.,
Banda Bassotti,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Barracudas,
Magma,
AZ,
Porter Ricks,
The Selecter,
Jacques Brel,
the Association,
ABC,
Lou Christie,
The Human League,
Average White Band,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Joyce Sims,
Crash Course in Science,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Black Sheep,
The Electric Prunes,
Boogie Down Productions,
Jandek,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Eddi Front,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Nas,
Con Funk Shun,
Animal Collective,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Girls At Our Best!,
Gang Green,
Roy Ayers,
Joensuu 1685,
The Invisible,
Grey Daturas,
Masters at Work,
Darondo,
The Angels of Light,
Faraquet,
June of 44,
Henry Cow,
Juan Atkins,
Dorothy Ashby,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Searchers,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Prince Buster,
Bauhaus,
David Bowie,
Essential Logic,
Hoover,
Rufus Thomas,
Silicon Teens,
E-Dancer,
Kerrie Biddell,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Zapp,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.