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 Uganda and from Stockholm.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 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 Association to the grunge 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 Intrusion. All the underground hits.
All Sandy B tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DNA record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Human League record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gregory Isaacs,
Negative Approach,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Tomorrow,
Agitation Free,
Theoretical Girls,
The Martian,
Urselle,
Todd Terry,
Harry Pussy,
Idris Muhammad,
Magazine,
The Move,
Quantec,
Gichy Dan,
Lyres,
the Soft Cell,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Nirvana,
Pulsallama,
Erasure,
Ralphi Rosario,
Deepchord,
Tears for Fears,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Moleskins,
Gabor Szabo,
Terry Callier,
Inner City,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Mantronix,
New York Dolls,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Young Marble Giants,
Half Japanese,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Black Flag,
Jerry's Kids,
The Five Americans,
The Invisible,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
K-Klass,
Eurythmics,
Sonny Sharrock,
Stereo Dub,
The Residents,
Massinfluence,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Subhumans,
Johnny Osbourne,
Black Bananas,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Crash Course in Science,
Public Enemy,
Warsaw,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Popol Vuh,
The Motions, The Motions, The Motions, The Motions.
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.