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 Turkmenistan and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Nirvana to the disco 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 Vaughan Mason & Crew. All the underground hits.
All Faust tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Graham Central Station record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pierre Henry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Red Krayola,
Simply Red,
Schoolly D,
Max Romeo,
Scrapy,
The Sonics,
Chrome,
Echospace,
Ituana,
The Detroit Cobras,
the Slits,
Y Pants,
Basic Channel,
Glenn Branca,
Underground Resistance,
Japan,
The Dave Clark Five,
Moss Icon,
Tomorrow,
Andrew Hill,
Thompson Twins,
Sarah Menescal,
Kerrie Biddell,
Roy Ayers,
JFA,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Joey Negro,
the Human League,
Rufus Thomas,
Cluster,
The Slits,
Nico,
Bootsy Collins,
Sonic Youth,
Amon Düül II,
Bush Tetras,
John Cale,
Throbbing Gristle,
EPMD,
Lightning Bolt,
Mantronix,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Kayak,
Easy Going,
Marc Almond,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Rapeman,
The Searchers,
Quadrant,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Gabor Szabo,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Ultra Naté,
Yusef Lateef,
Masters at Work,
Girls At Our Best!,
Stockholm Monsters,
Skaos,
X-102,
Adolescents,
Flamin' Groovies,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
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Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282.
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.