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 China and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Misunderstood to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Jerry's Kids. All the underground hits.
All The Fugs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Angels of Light & Akron/Family 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sly & The Family Stone record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lower 48,
Fear,
Banda Bassotti,
Delta 5,
John Holt,
Amazonics,
David McCallum,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Michelle Simonal,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Altered Images,
MDC,
The Barracudas,
the Human League,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Kerrie Biddell,
Lee Hazlewood,
Juan Atkins,
The Last Poets,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
T. Rex,
Technova,
Nas,
New Order,
X-102,
Jeff Mills,
Dorothy Ashby,
John Lydon,
Youth Brigade,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Skriet,
Cal Tjader,
PIL,
Silicon Teens,
Mars,
Anthony Braxton,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Moleskins,
Crooked Eye,
The Smiths,
Scott Walker,
Marvin Gaye,
Desert Stars,
Joyce Sims,
June Days,
Lindisfarne,
The Cramps,
Excepter,
The Gladiators,
10cc,
Chris & Cosey,
This Heat,
Cymande,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Blackbyrds,
Audionom,
8 Eyed Spy,
ABC,
a-ha,
Tom Boy,
Jacob Miller,
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You don't know what you really want.
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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.