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 Gabon and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Yazoo to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Saccharine Trust. All the underground hits.
All Nik Kershaw tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DeepChord presents Echospace record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 organ and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eric Dolphy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sonic Youth,
DJ Style,
KRS-One,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Cymande,
The Cowsills,
The Slits,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Hasil Adkins,
Althea and Donna,
Surgeon,
Qualms,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Dead C,
H. Thieme,
Half Japanese,
Derrick May,
Harmonia,
June Days,
Minnie Riperton,
The Fortunes,
China Crisis,
MC5,
A Certain Ratio,
Roxy Music,
Guru Guru,
Soul Sonic Force,
Yellowson,
The Divine Comedy,
K-Klass,
Bang On A Can,
cv313,
Cluster,
Crispy Ambulance,
Pulsallama,
Max Romeo,
MDC,
Johnny Clarke,
Cal Tjader,
The Count Five,
OOIOO,
Derrick Morgan,
Dennis Brown,
Ken Boothe,
Amazonics,
Babytalk,
a-ha,
Lou Christie,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
World's Most,
Lalo Schifrin,
Stetsasonic,
The Index,
Alphaville,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Brothers Johnson,
Yaz,
Nick Fraelich,
Jesper Dahlback,
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.
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.