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 Somalia and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Monolake to the disco 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 Roxette. All the underground hits.
All Davy DMX tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Porter Ricks 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Spoonie Gee record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gastr Del Sol,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Amon Düül II,
Pagans,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Loose Ends,
Excepter,
The Monks,
Agent Orange,
Main Source,
Tommy Roe,
Slick Rick,
Q and Not U,
Bootsy Collins,
The Invisible,
Fatback Band,
Roy Ayers,
Kaleidoscope,
The Smiths,
Sandy B,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Theoretical Girls,
Soul Sonic Force,
Steve Hackett,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Duran Duran,
Matthew Bourne,
Agitation Free,
Funky Four + One,
Dark Day,
the Human League,
Niagra,
Essential Logic,
Black Flag,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Fortunes,
The Move,
Jawbox,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Durutti Column,
Tres Demented,
The Black Dice,
The Saints,
The Trojans,
Erykah Badu,
Eric Copeland,
Metal Thangz,
Aloha Tigers,
Angry Samoans,
Harmonia,
Mo-Dettes,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Jeru the Damaja,
Blake Baxter,
Wally Richardson,
Kas Product,
June of 44,
Roger Hodgson,
The Blues Magoos,
Marmalade,
The Buckinghams,
the Bar-Kays,
Absolute Body Control,
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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.