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 Ghana and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the 808 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 Moby Grape to the dance kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Pet Shop Boys. All the underground hits.
All the Normal tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every MDC 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Quando Quango record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Sonics,
Altered Images,
James White and The Blacks,
Byron Stingily,
The Human League,
Average White Band,
Silicon Teens,
Accadde A,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Slave,
Flash Fearless,
Cal Tjader,
Bang On A Can,
Girls At Our Best!,
Deadbeat,
Deakin,
The Slits,
Jesper Dahlback,
Donny Hathaway,
Kevin Saunderson,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Gang Green,
Bauhaus,
Nils Olav,
Minutemen,
Soul Sonic Force,
Junior Murvin,
Brand Nubian,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Joe Smooth,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Circle Jerks,
Boredoms,
Man Parrish,
New Age Steppers,
Agitation Free,
The Techniques,
The Cure,
Slick Rick,
Harmonia,
The Litter,
T.S.O.L.,
X-Ray Spex,
Technova,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Mark Hollis,
Youth Brigade,
Rites of Spring,
Stockholm Monsters,
Y Pants,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Maurizio,
Sonny Sharrock,
Minnie Riperton,
Radio Birdman,
Michelle Simonal,
Lalann,
Aaron Thompson,
Todd Terry,
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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.