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 Libya and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in London.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 The Standells to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 FM Einheit. All the underground hits.
All Nils Olav tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jerry's Kids 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 rhodes and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Youth Brigade record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Lakeside,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Archie Shepp,
Public Enemy,
One Last Wish,
Grauzone,
Joensuu 1685,
Mad Mike,
Liliput,
The Cure,
The Shadows of Knight,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Standells,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Stereo Dub,
Audionom,
Black Bananas,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Fear,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Leonard Cohen,
The Neon Judgement,
Gregory Isaacs,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Lalo Schifrin,
Minor Threat,
Aloha Tigers,
Main Source,
Skarface,
Fatback Band,
The Golliwogs,
Funkadelic,
Skaos,
Flipper,
The Vogues,
Derrick May,
The United States of America,
Mr. Review,
Eric B and Rakim,
Nick Fraelich,
Ronnie Foster,
Soulsonic Force,
Index,
John Coltrane,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Pierre Henry,
Al Stewart,
Television,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Harmonia,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Lindisfarne,
Piero Umiliani,
Roger Hodgson,
Pole,
Graham Central Station,
Iggy Pop,
Black Flag,
Freddie Wadling,
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.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.