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 Germany and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Infiniti to the disco 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 Neil Young. All the underground hits.
All Dawn Penn tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Idris Muhammad record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 snare and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The New Christs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Radio Birdman,
Ronan,
Faraquet,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Misunderstood,
Susan Cadogan,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Agitation Free,
The Wake,
The Smiths,
Deepchord,
Matthew Bourne,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Ultra Naté,
Barbara Tucker,
New Age Steppers,
The Kinks,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Bauhaus,
Marvin Gaye,
The Cramps,
Junior Murvin,
Organ,
A Certain Ratio,
The Fortunes,
Buzzcocks,
Kayak,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Tropical Tobacco,
Michelle Simonal,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The United States of America,
Pierre Henry,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Ituana,
Roxy Music,
John Lydon,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Wire,
Warren Ellis,
Soft Cell,
Lyres,
Accadde A,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
La Düsseldorf,
John Cale,
Jeff Mills,
Magma,
Smog,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
This Heat,
Amazonics,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Jeru the Damaja,
Amon Düül,
Stereo Dub,
Nas,
David Bowie,
DeepChord presents Echospace, DeepChord presents Echospace, DeepChord presents Echospace, DeepChord presents Echospace.
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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.