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 Switzerland and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Madrid.
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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the güiro 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 Kool G Rap & DJ Polo to the grunge 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 Idris Muhammad. All the underground hits.
All Ronan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Be Bop Deluxe 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gichy Dan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rufus Thomas,
Patti Smith,
Mission of Burma,
Deepchord,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Howard Jones,
Rosa Yemen,
Swans,
Gong,
World's Most,
Anthony Braxton,
Kevin Saunderson,
Metal Thangz,
Infiniti,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Sonny Sharrock,
Lalann,
David McCallum,
X-Ray Spex,
Suburban Knight,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Fear,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Ralphi Rosario,
the Slits,
Monolake,
Peter and Kerry,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Thompson Twins,
Franke,
Mantronix,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Residents,
Blossom Toes,
The Blues Magoos,
Barry Ungar,
Neil Young,
Slick Rick,
Reuben Wilson,
DNA,
Sixth Finger,
The Martian,
The Smiths,
JFA,
Barrington Levy,
Oneida,
The Cramps,
Desert Stars,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
ABC,
Harpers Bizarre,
Radiohead,
Panda Bear,
Marmalade,
Nick Fraelich,
Traffic Nightmare,
Bush Tetras,
PIL,
Cheater Slicks,
Bad Manners,
Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc..
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You don't know what you really want.
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.