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 Seychelles and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1966 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 rhodes 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 Lou Reed & Metallica to the funk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Con Funk Shun. All the underground hits.
All De La Soul & Jungle Brothers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Saccharine Trust 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jawbox record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Joe Finger,
Isaac Hayes,
The Walker Brothers,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
F. McDonald,
Vainqueur,
Rod Modell,
Slave,
Kas Product,
Cluster,
The Leaves,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Marshall Jefferson,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Delon & Dalcan,
Wire,
PIL,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Real Kids,
Magazine,
Minny Pops,
Tres Demented,
Pulsallama,
Moss Icon,
Organ,
Althea and Donna,
Kurtis Blow,
Camouflage,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
the Fania All-Stars,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Index,
Danielle Patucci,
Dorothy Ashby,
R.M.O.,
Pharoah Sanders,
Darondo,
Scion,
Sonic Youth,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Harpers Bizarre,
Zapp,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Porter Ricks,
Maleditus Sound,
The Associates,
X-101,
John Foxx,
The Barracudas,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Black Dice,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Von Mondo,
Harmonia,
Quantec,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Invisible,
Man Eating Sloth,
Section 25,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Joey Negro,
Johnny Clarke,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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You don't know what you really want.
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You don't know what you really want.
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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.