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 France and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the marimba 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 Faust to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Darondo. All the underground hits.
All Todd Terry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aswad 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Soft Cell record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lungfish,
Archie Shepp,
Mo-Dettes,
The Raincoats,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Kerri Chandler,
The Detroit Cobras,
Radiopuhelimet,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Symarip,
Aloha Tigers,
Fugazi,
Lindisfarne,
The Cure,
UT,
Section 25,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Johnny Osbourne,
Bob Dylan,
Jimmy McGriff,
Negative Approach,
The Vogues,
Freddie Wadling,
In Retrospect,
EPMD,
Das Ding,
The Walker Brothers,
John Lydon,
Scott Walker,
Scratch Acid,
Nick Fraelich,
Bobby Byrd,
Letta Mbulu,
Bush Tetras,
The Beau Brummels,
Moss Icon,
E-Dancer,
Ultravox,
Joe Finger,
Infiniti,
The Fugs,
Joensuu 1685,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Pylon,
Fat Boys,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Tomorrow,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Terry Callier,
Mars,
Soulsonic Force,
Cluster,
Neil Young,
Roy Ayers,
Con Funk Shun,
Darondo,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Searchers,
Dawn Penn,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Kenny Larkin,
Essential Logic,
Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc..
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You don't know what you really want.
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