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 South Africa and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Vainqueur to the jazz 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 June Days. All the underground hits.
All Qualms tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sun Ra 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 theremin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Harry Pussy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Q and Not U,
Clear Light,
Joe Finger,
Negative Approach,
Soul II Soul,
Boogie Down Productions,
Amon Düül II,
Agitation Free,
Soft Cell,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Cluster,
Arcadia,
Mr. Review,
Ice-T,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Moby Grape,
Anthony Braxton,
Roxy Music,
Deadbeat,
Camberwell Now,
Marvin Gaye,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Mars,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Misunderstood,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Seeds,
Deepchord,
The Flesh Eaters,
the Bar-Kays,
Bluetip,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Don Cherry,
Sarah Menescal,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Five Americans,
Suicide,
Matthew Halsall,
Faraquet,
Ralphi Rosario,
Young Marble Giants,
Eurythmics,
Terrestrial Tones,
Colin Newman,
John Lydon,
Kerri Chandler,
MDC,
Donald Byrd,
Drive Like Jehu,
Cybotron,
The Invisible,
Todd Rundgren,
The Trojans,
Janne Schatter,
The Gun Club,
Michelle Simonal,
The Dead C,
Hoover,
Symarip,
The Index,
New York Dolls,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Girls At Our Best!, Girls At Our Best!, Girls At Our Best!, Girls At Our Best!.
You don't know what you really want.
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.