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 Peru and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 guitar 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 Flipper to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Deepchord. All the underground hits.
All Neu! tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mary Jane Girls record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Siouxsie and the Banshees record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Flamin' Groovies,
Roxy Music,
Scan 7,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Bill Wells,
Jandek,
Yaz,
Eli Mardock,
Kayak,
Lee Hazlewood,
Glambeats Corp.,
Frankie Knuckles,
Deadbeat,
the Normal,
John Cale,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
T. Rex,
The Red Krayola,
Colin Newman,
Bizarre Inc.,
Cal Tjader,
Sun Ra,
Sex Pistols,
The Mummies,
CMW,
Fear,
Public Enemy,
Mary Jane Girls,
Yazoo,
the Fania All-Stars,
Kurtis Blow,
The Misunderstood,
Sixth Finger,
Hashim,
Saccharine Trust,
Joe Finger,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Dead C,
Visage,
Youth Brigade,
Terrestrial Tones,
Con Funk Shun,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The United States of America,
Second Layer,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
MDC,
a-ha,
Sexual Harrassment,
Subhumans,
Harmonia,
DNA,
Nirvana,
Suburban Knight,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Marine Girls,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Quando Quango,
R.M.O., R.M.O., R.M.O., R.M.O..
You don't know what you really want.
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.
You don't know what you really want.