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 Poland and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Neil Young & Crazy Horse to the techno 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 Bobby Sherman. All the underground hits.
All Ossler tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ronan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Skriet record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare 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?
Roger Hodgson,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Toni Rubio,
Oblivians,
Rapeman,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Doobie Brothers,
Boogie Down Productions,
Young Marble Giants,
Ossler,
The Monks,
Prince Buster,
Pole,
The Knickerbockers,
Visage,
Crash Course in Science,
Dennis Brown,
John Coltrane,
Derrick May,
Marcia Griffiths,
Soft Machine,
Ronan,
Basic Channel,
The Electric Prunes,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Max Romeo,
David Bowie,
Rosa Yemen,
FM Einheit,
Hashim,
Aswad,
Animal Collective,
Dark Day,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Half Japanese,
Fugazi,
Scientists,
Kevin Saunderson,
Bizarre Inc.,
the Slits,
Public Enemy,
Bill Wells,
Cheater Slicks,
Parry Music,
Minutemen,
Ronnie Foster,
Jimmy McGriff,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Spoonie Gee,
Simply Red,
Model 500,
Kool Moe Dee,
June of 44,
Kerri Chandler,
Yaz,
Patti Smith,
Hasil Adkins,
Faust,
the Normal,
Metal Thangz,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu.
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.