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 Nepal and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle 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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
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 Oneida to the crunk 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 Audionom. All the underground hits.
All Subhumans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dual Sessions record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 marimba and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Walker Brothers 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?
Matthew Halsall,
Sight & Sound,
Massinfluence,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Ultravox,
Aaron Thompson,
Jesper Dahlback,
Arab on Radar,
Das Ding,
Idris Muhammad,
the Human League,
Television Personalities,
Blancmange,
Supertramp,
Porter Ricks,
Moebius,
Thompson Twins,
Anakelly,
Fear,
Depeche Mode,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Music Machine,
Kayak,
Amazonics,
X-Ray Spex,
The Real Kids,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Cheater Slicks,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
the Slits,
Skaos,
Camberwell Now,
Wire,
The Walker Brothers,
Parry Music,
Yazoo,
Kaleidoscope,
Sun Ra,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Joe Smooth,
Tomorrow,
Organ,
Circle Jerks,
Don Cherry,
Robert Hood,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Tim Buckley,
Neil Young,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Searchers,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Camouflage,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Graham Central Station,
Ronan,
The Martian,
Sparks,
Jerry Gold Smith,
cv313,
Gong,
T.S.O.L.,
Index,
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.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.