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 Estonia and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Johnny Osbourne to the rock 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 EPMD. All the underground hits.
All Quando Quango tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Martian record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Trojans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Amazonics,
Average White Band,
David Axelrod,
Unwound,
Tommy Roe,
Erasure,
Ronan,
Y Pants,
MDC,
H. Thieme,
the Slits,
Cal Tjader,
Model 500,
The Doors,
The American Breed,
David Bowie,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Birthday Party,
Khruangbin,
KRS-One,
Dorothy Ashby,
Toni Rubio,
Lindisfarne,
Magazine,
Soul II Soul,
Crispy Ambulance,
Easy Going,
Altered Images,
Nils Olav,
Newcleus,
Donny Hathaway,
One Last Wish,
Grauzone,
Yellowson,
Talk Talk,
Panda Bear,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Ultimate Spinach,
Jawbox,
The Move,
China Crisis,
Ornette Coleman,
John Lydon,
Sun City Girls,
Barrington Levy,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Circle Jerks,
X-101,
Fugazi,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Offenders,
Rapeman,
La Düsseldorf,
Symarip,
Underground Resistance,
Ultravox,
Darondo,
Popol Vuh,
Television,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The New Christs,
Aaron Thompson,
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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.