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 Bahamas and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the organ 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 David Bowie to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Metal Thangz. All the underground hits.
All Lucky Dragons tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Shoche record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Isaac Hayes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Kas Product,
Cybotron,
Jacob Miller,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Marshall Jefferson,
Eli Mardock,
Bootsy Collins,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Lightning Bolt,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Reuben Wilson,
Grey Daturas,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Sound,
Pantytec,
Duran Duran,
Mars,
June Days,
Marmalade,
Masters at Work,
The Slits,
The Black Dice,
Colin Newman,
The Invisible,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Buckinghams,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Pretty Things,
Moby Grape,
Porter Ricks,
DNA,
Letta Mbulu,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Main Source,
Sight & Sound,
The Gories,
Los Fastidios,
The Victims,
Kerri Chandler,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Fat Boys,
Nation of Ulysses,
Bobby Womack,
The Index,
Vladislav Delay,
Quadrant,
Steve Hackett,
Dawn Penn,
Royal Trux,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Thee Headcoats,
Pulsallama,
Maurizio,
New York Dolls,
Max Romeo,
Robert Görl,
Minor Threat,
The Five Americans,
Symarip,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
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.
You don't know what you really want.