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 Senegal and from Bremen.
But I was there.
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I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 The Busters to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu. All the underground hits.
All Glambeats Corp. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Sonics record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Jesus and Mary Chain record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ten City,
Sight & Sound,
Bobby Sherman,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Velvet Underground,
Brand Nubian,
Radio Birdman,
Drive Like Jehu,
Ultravox,
Panda Bear,
Kenny Larkin,
the Germs,
The Beau Brummels,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Gladiators,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Monks,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Evens,
Black Bananas,
The Young Rascals,
The Electric Prunes,
Royal Trux,
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Wally Richardson,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Jerry's Kids,
The Angels of Light,
Archie Shepp,
Youth Brigade,
Carl Craig,
The Pretty Things,
The Fuzztones,
Gichy Dan,
Yazoo,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Jeff Mills,
Soft Machine,
Judy Mowatt,
Donny Hathaway,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Boz Scaggs,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Divine Comedy,
Robert Hood,
Reagan Youth,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Mark Hollis,
Vladislav Delay,
Agitation Free,
Bizarre Inc.,
Sarah Menescal,
The Doobie Brothers,
Malaria!,
Lightning Bolt,
Peter and Kerry,
The Shadows of Knight,
Kas Product,
Minor Threat,
The Gories,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.
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.