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 Thailand and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Siglo XX to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Walker Brothers. All the underground hits.
All OOIOO tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Outsiders record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Major Organ And The Adding Machine record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Youth Brigade,
Minor Threat,
The Fuzztones,
LL Cool J,
The Pretty Things,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Byron Stingily,
MC5,
Pharoah Sanders,
Alison Limerick,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Sonic Youth,
The Associates,
Wolf Eyes,
Flash Fearless,
The Electric Prunes,
Theoretical Girls,
Kayak,
8 Eyed Spy,
Khruangbin,
Alton Ellis,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Yusef Lateef,
Scan 7,
The Kinks,
Isaac Hayes,
Rhythm & Sound,
Mr. Review,
Boredoms,
The Fugs,
The American Breed,
The Walker Brothers,
The Leaves,
Gong,
Reagan Youth,
DJ Style,
Organ,
Scott Walker,
Girls At Our Best!,
Skaos,
Ossler,
Lucky Dragons,
The Grass Roots,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Music Machine,
Bizarre Inc.,
Eli Mardock,
These Immortal Souls,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Nation of Ulysses,
Jeff Mills,
Terry Callier,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Pet Shop Boys,
X-Ray Spex,
Gastr Del Sol,
Anthony Braxton,
Symarip,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Soulsonic Force,
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You don't know what you really want.
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