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 Cuba and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Sandy B to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Niagra. All the underground hits.
All Sonny Sharrock tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Magazine 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Au Pairs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pussy Galore,
Sonny Sharrock,
Supertramp,
Joe Finger,
Letta Mbulu,
The Velvet Underground,
X-101,
Essential Logic,
Massinfluence,
Morten Harket,
Funky Four + One,
John Coltrane,
Joey Negro,
MC5,
Darondo,
Brick,
Archie Shepp,
48th St. Collective,
Matthew Halsall,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Gregory Isaacs,
Black Bananas,
Aural Exciters,
Lyres,
La Düsseldorf,
Silicon Teens,
Loose Ends,
Monolake,
Panda Bear,
Das Ding,
One Last Wish,
Deadbeat,
Procol Harum,
Rod Modell,
Kurtis Blow,
Yellowson,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Sonic Youth,
Main Source,
Negative Approach,
Hot Snakes,
The Neon Judgement,
Pet Shop Boys,
Bill Near,
Donny Hathaway,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Crispy Ambulance,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Michelle Simonal,
Scion,
Alice Coltrane,
Zapp,
Chris & Cosey,
Sixth Finger,
Zero Boys,
The Last Poets,
Prince Buster,
Black Moon,
Bob Dylan,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Fort Wilson Riot,
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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.
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.