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 Croatia and from Jakarta.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Agent Orange to the disco 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 Roxy Music. All the underground hits.
All Jesper Dahlback tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every La Düsseldorf record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 an organ and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cameo 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?
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Fortunes,
Mary Jane Girls,
The New Christs,
Liliput,
Silicon Teens,
JFA,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Radiohead,
Godley & Creme,
ABC,
Agitation Free,
Depeche Mode,
The American Breed,
Moebius,
Judy Mowatt,
Kool Moe Dee,
Intrusion,
OOIOO,
Peter and Kerry,
The Moleskins,
Babytalk,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Jerry's Kids,
F. McDonald,
FM Einheit,
Pagans,
Peter & Gordon,
Brothers Johnson,
The Velvet Underground,
Deadbeat,
The Raincoats,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
K-Klass,
Japan,
Nik Kershaw,
Max Romeo,
Nils Olav,
Main Source,
cv313,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Cure,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Hashim,
Rod Modell,
Nirvana,
Idris Muhammad,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
John Lydon,
Little Man,
Metal Thangz,
Brass Construction,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Harpers Bizarre,
This Heat,
The Seeds,
Kas Product,
48th St. Collective,
the Normal,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu.
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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.
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.