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 Monaco and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Magazine to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Zeros. All the underground hits.
All The Barracudas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Flash Fearless record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Derrick Morgan,
Warren Ellis,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Wake,
Lucky Dragons,
Subhumans,
Hot Snakes,
Niagra,
Tears for Fears,
Wally Richardson,
Pagans,
Barbara Tucker,
Peter & Gordon,
Ituana,
The Blues Magoos,
Q and Not U,
8 Eyed Spy,
Funkadelic,
Silicon Teens,
the Association,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Urselle,
Franke,
Unwound,
Stockholm Monsters,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Motorama,
Faust,
Agitation Free,
E-Dancer,
Gang Starr,
John Cale,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Supertramp,
Interpol,
Ultimate Spinach,
EPMD,
Trumans Water,
Technova,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Ronnie Foster,
The Walker Brothers,
John Coltrane,
Cecil Taylor,
Rites of Spring,
Mr. Review,
Spandau Ballet,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Dave Clark Five,
James White and The Blacks,
Chris Corsano,
Aloha Tigers,
Graham Central Station,
Magma,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Camberwell Now,
Guru Guru,
Radio Birdman,
Severed Heads,
A Certain Ratio,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu.
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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.