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 East Timor and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Model 500 to the jazz 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 Bobbi Humphrey. All the underground hits.
All Deadbeat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Cosmic Jokers 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ralphi Rosario record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Gories,
Kool Moe Dee,
Ronnie Foster,
The Happenings,
Massinfluence,
Jawbox,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Absolute Body Control,
Faust,
Qualms,
Peter and Kerry,
Youth Brigade,
The Divine Comedy,
Bush Tetras,
The Neon Judgement,
Harpers Bizarre,
Cal Tjader,
Accadde A,
The Doors,
The Litter,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Charles Mingus,
Jeff Lynne,
Mr. Review,
Alice Coltrane,
Sound Behaviour,
Smog,
Carl Craig,
The Misunderstood,
the Germs,
Amazonics,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Desert Stars,
Blancmange,
Bronski Beat,
Soft Cell,
Idris Muhammad,
Neil Young,
Glenn Branca,
L. Decosne,
Lakeside,
Spoonie Gee,
John Foxx,
The Busters,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Mars,
The New Christs,
Essential Logic,
Fugazi,
Black Flag,
Joe Finger,
Sun City Girls,
In Retrospect,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Cowsills,
Throbbing Gristle,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Toasters,
Television Personalities,
Warsaw,
The Saints,
Gerry Rafferty,
Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd..
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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.