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 Maldives and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Beijing.
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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Gichy Dan to the rap kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 The Mighty Diamonds. All the underground hits.
All Swans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Deepchord record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Deepchord record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Agitation Free,
Half Japanese,
James Chance & The Contortions,
T.S.O.L.,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Grass Roots,
Throbbing Gristle,
Drexciya,
Todd Rundgren,
Dennis Brown,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Josef K,
Pylon,
The Moody Blues,
The Cowsills,
The Kinks,
Chris & Cosey,
ABBA,
The Martian,
The Durutti Column,
The Seeds,
Model 500,
The Mojo Men,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Doors,
Vainqueur,
Deepchord,
Matthew Halsall,
Hoover,
Scrapy,
Max Romeo,
Main Source,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Remains,
Soul Sonic Force,
Charles Mingus,
Reuben Wilson,
Rekid,
Bang On A Can,
Ultravox,
the Germs,
The Names,
Delon & Dalcan,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Silicon Teens,
Deakin,
The Invisible,
Babytalk,
The Busters,
Fluxion,
Arab on Radar,
Dark Day,
June Days,
Glambeats Corp.,
Wasted Youth,
The New Christs,
LL Cool J,
The Standells,
Leonard Cohen,
Roxy Music,
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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.