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 Bolivia and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 Donald Fagen 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 Warren Ellis to the jazz 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 Neil Young. All the underground hits.
All Roxy Music tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Basic Channel record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Oblivians record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Davy DMX,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Soft Machine,
Infiniti,
Isaac Hayes,
The Human League,
Main Source,
Suburban Knight,
Erykah Badu,
The Last Poets,
China Crisis,
Harry Pussy,
The Sound,
World's Most,
The Associates,
Joy Division,
Roxette,
Mary Jane Girls,
Moebius,
Ultra Naté,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Bluetip,
Avey Tare,
Surgeon,
The Smiths,
Gang Green,
The Neon Judgement,
The Gladiators,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Raincoats,
The Names,
The Doors,
Alice Coltrane,
The Grass Roots,
10cc,
Jerry's Kids,
Joensuu 1685,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Buzzcocks,
The Modern Lovers,
Susan Cadogan,
Janne Schatter,
Bill Wells,
Gong,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Camouflage,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Aloha Tigers,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Barracudas,
The Moleskins,
Funky Four + One,
Swell Maps,
KRS-One,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Groovy Waters,
cv313,
Radiopuhelimet,
JFA,
Television Personalities,
Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd..
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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.