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 Haiti and from Paris.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
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 Easy Going to the grunge kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 X-Ray Spex. All the underground hits.
All Delta 5 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Shoche record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 linndrum and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Swans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar 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?
The Angels of Light,
Erasure,
The Detroit Cobras,
Hoover,
Wire,
Eric B and Rakim,
Black Bananas,
Andrew Hill,
Glenn Branca,
Ponytail,
Boredoms,
Eden Ahbez,
Cecil Taylor,
Bootsy Collins,
The Walker Brothers,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Alice Coltrane,
Scratch Acid,
Yellowson,
Blossom Toes,
B.T. Express,
John Coltrane,
Technova,
Soulsonic Force,
Gerry Rafferty,
ABBA,
The Count Five,
Sister Nancy,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Ken Boothe,
Scion,
The Pretty Things,
JFA,
Jerry's Kids,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Ultimate Spinach,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Radiopuhelimet,
Altered Images,
Malaria!,
The Real Kids,
Al Stewart,
The Remains,
Don Cherry,
Second Layer,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Moody Blues,
Connie Case,
The Gladiators,
Zero Boys,
Ice-T,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Roxy Music,
Funky Four + One,
The Grass Roots,
Fear,
Slave,
the Association,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Doors,
Peter and Kerry,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.
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.