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 Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 güiro 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 Bill Wells to the funk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Mary Jane Girls. All the underground hits.
All Todd Terry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Grass Roots record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Harpers Bizarre record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Monolake,
Lightning Bolt,
F. McDonald,
Deadbeat,
Silicon Teens,
Fluxion,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Red Krayola,
Thompson Twins,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Unwound,
Ronnie Foster,
Tom Boy,
Robert Wyatt,
Warren Ellis,
Darondo,
Leonard Cohen,
JFA,
Inner City,
Mars,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Busters,
Lalann,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Eric Dolphy,
Wolf Eyes,
The Shadows of Knight,
Procol Harum,
Al Stewart,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Black Moon,
Bobby Byrd,
Albert Ayler,
Flamin' Groovies,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Dave Gahan,
Carl Craig,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Five Americans,
The Leaves,
The Trojans,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Pulsallama,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Joe Finger,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Kurtis Blow,
Wasted Youth,
James White and The Blacks,
Kaleidoscope,
Circle Jerks,
Jeff Lynne,
Youth Brigade,
Index,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Cure,
Panda Bear,
Hot Snakes,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Metal Thangz,
In Retrospect,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282.
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You don't know what you really want.
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.