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 Vietnam and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Wire to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Underground Resistance. All the underground hits.
All Kings Of Tomorrow tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Au Pairs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jandek record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Howard Jones,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Connie Case,
The Litter,
Pharoah Sanders,
John Cale,
Gang Green,
Symarip,
Soul II Soul,
Colin Newman,
Dave Gahan,
Minor Threat,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Hashim,
Glenn Branca,
The Associates,
Drexciya,
Skriet,
The American Breed,
Shuggie Otis,
Clear Light,
New Age Steppers,
Ronan,
Flamin' Groovies,
Liliput,
Grandmaster Flash,
Outsiders,
Zapp,
Gil Scott Heron,
Nick Fraelich,
Lakeside,
Panda Bear,
The Last Poets,
X-102,
Parry Music,
Stockholm Monsters,
Patti Smith,
Sandy B,
James White and The Blacks,
the Sonics,
Moby Grape,
Johnny Clarke,
Joe Finger,
Basic Channel,
Schoolly D,
Nik Kershaw,
Henry Cow,
Glambeats Corp.,
Chris Corsano,
Pole,
Mars,
The Five Americans,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Negative Approach,
Gichy Dan,
Hoover,
Janne Schatter,
The Sound,
The Count Five,
Lalo Schifrin,
Derrick Morgan,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Mark Hollis,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Major Organ And The Adding Machine.
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.
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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.