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 Madagascar and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 The Leaves to the jazz 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 Eric Dolphy. All the underground hits.
All Zapp tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Radiohead 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a David Axelrod record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alison Limerick,
Essential Logic,
Fatback Band,
Ultra Naté,
Reuben Wilson,
Ken Boothe,
Babytalk,
Bang On A Can,
Minnie Riperton,
Scientists,
Rekid,
Letta Mbulu,
The Tremeloes,
Crash Course in Science,
Half Japanese,
Quantec,
The Doobie Brothers,
La Düsseldorf,
Hardrive,
Q and Not U,
Matthew Halsall,
Amazonics,
Sister Nancy,
Mars,
Deepchord,
Flamin' Groovies,
Bush Tetras,
June Days,
New Age Steppers,
The Real Kids,
Television,
The Residents,
Hasil Adkins,
Avey Tare,
Peter and Kerry,
Nils Olav,
John Cale,
Fela Kuti,
Marvin Gaye,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Big Daddy Kane,
Average White Band,
Whodini,
Crispian St. Peters,
Roxette,
The Happenings,
Motorama,
Ohio Players,
Sarah Menescal,
Cymande,
Marshall Jefferson,
Arcadia,
Ronnie Foster,
The Shadows of Knight,
D'Angelo,
The Beau Brummels,
Dual Sessions,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Monks,
The Moody Blues,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
R.M.O., R.M.O., R.M.O., R.M.O..
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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.
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.