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 Guyana and from Tehran.
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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Josef K to the rap kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Art Ensemble Of Chicago. All the underground hits.
All Johnny Clarke tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every CMW record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a FM Einheit record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kenny Larkin,
Joey Negro,
Shuggie Otis,
E-Dancer,
Mars,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Lebanon Hanover,
Eric Dolphy,
Negative Approach,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Bob Dylan,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Gun Club,
The Raincoats,
Gong,
K-Klass,
The Young Rascals,
Brand Nubian,
Prince Buster,
U.S. Maple,
Ten City,
DJ Style,
Deakin,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Albert Ayler,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Smog,
Cheater Slicks,
Parry Music,
B.T. Express,
Flamin' Groovies,
Clear Light,
Terrestrial Tones,
Maleditus Sound,
Agent Orange,
Neil Young,
Laurel Aitken,
The Doobie Brothers,
Yazoo,
The Moody Blues,
X-Ray Spex,
Joyce Sims,
Oblivians,
Ice-T,
Sixth Finger,
Shoche,
Japan,
Thompson Twins,
Rotary Connection,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Alton Ellis,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Gladiators,
Colin Newman,
Eden Ahbez,
Banda Bassotti,
Ossler,
Boz Scaggs,
Quando Quango,
Pet Shop Boys,
Nik Kershaw,
Magma,
Vainqueur,
Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd..
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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.