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 Russia and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 synthesizer 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 Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon to the electroclash 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 The Barracudas. All the underground hits.
All Black Flag tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fugs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 clarinet and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Boredoms record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Animal Collective,
Electric Prunes,
Wally Richardson,
Robert Wyatt,
Procol Harum,
8 Eyed Spy,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
B.T. Express,
Dawn Penn,
Magma,
Darondo,
Arthur Verocai,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Camberwell Now,
Gichy Dan,
Easy Going,
AZ,
Funky Four + One,
X-102,
Ralphi Rosario,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Roxette,
Sexual Harrassment,
Kerrie Biddell,
Crispian St. Peters,
Eurythmics,
Fugazi,
The Standells,
cv313,
Dead Boys,
Trumans Water,
Metal Thangz,
The Monochrome Set,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Sonics,
Visage,
Leonard Cohen,
Heaven 17,
PIL,
Lee Hazlewood,
Boogie Down Productions,
Jandek,
New Order,
Faraquet,
Reuben Wilson,
Index,
Eric Dolphy,
The Techniques,
Sonic Youth,
Kayak,
Youth Brigade,
FM Einheit,
Echospace,
The Angels of Light,
Monolake,
The Fuzztones,
Scott Walker,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Blake Baxter,
Ornette Coleman,
Bauhaus, Bauhaus, Bauhaus, Bauhaus.
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.