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 Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
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 Aloha Tigers to the grunge 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 DeepChord presents Echospace. All the underground hits.
All John Cale tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every FM Einheit record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a ABC record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Quadrant,
Kevin Saunderson,
Ponytail,
Erykah Badu,
Althea and Donna,
Outsiders,
Public Enemy,
Arab on Radar,
48th St. Collective,
Siglo XX,
U.S. Maple,
Roxy Music,
Lightning Bolt,
Boz Scaggs,
Marvin Gaye,
Terry Callier,
Fat Boys,
Japan,
The Leaves,
Dave Gahan,
Lungfish,
Peter & Gordon,
The Raincoats,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Brick,
The Sound,
Animal Collective,
X-101,
Black Bananas,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Barracudas,
Altered Images,
The Wake,
Kayak,
The Smiths,
Mark Hollis,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Ituana,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Hoover,
Ornette Coleman,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
ABC,
Aaron Thompson,
Mantronix,
One Last Wish,
Easy Going,
The Zeros,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Darondo,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Anthony Braxton,
Minny Pops,
The Fugs,
John Cale,
Rakim,
Soulsonic Force,
The Red Krayola,
Fluxion,
Joensuu 1685,
The New Christs,
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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.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.