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 Canada and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the oboe 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 Tomorrow to the punk 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 Pagans. All the underground hits.
All Pharoah Sanders tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dave Gahan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The American Breed record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Parry Music,
Sam Rivers,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
AZ,
Monolake,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Wake,
Johnny Clarke,
Urselle,
Technova,
Erasure,
Wolf Eyes,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Public Image Ltd.,
Soulsonic Force,
Skaos,
Moss Icon,
Grandmaster Flash,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Boredoms,
Gichy Dan,
Morten Harket,
Nas,
Youth Brigade,
Alison Limerick,
Flamin' Groovies,
the Bar-Kays,
Loose Ends,
Wally Richardson,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Pantytec,
Banda Bassotti,
Anakelly,
Barry Ungar,
Schoolly D,
Minny Pops,
Tomorrow,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Sexual Harrassment,
MDC,
Bob Dylan,
Average White Band,
Lucky Dragons,
Neil Young,
Terry Callier,
Gang Starr,
B.T. Express,
The Doors,
OOIOO,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
F. McDonald,
Underground Resistance,
Flash Fearless,
Qualms,
the Human League,
Shoche,
Interpol,
Dark Day,
Swell Maps,
DJ Sneak,
Amon Düül,
Essential Logic,
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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.