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 Estonia and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
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 Section 25 to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Arab on Radar. All the underground hits.
All Darondo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Index 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gary Puckett & The Union Gap record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter & Gordon,
Crime,
Erykah Badu,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Invisible,
Mo-Dettes,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Cymande,
FM Einheit,
The Kinks,
Severed Heads,
Hot Snakes,
Godley & Creme,
48th St. Collective,
DJ Style,
New Order,
Lakeside,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Danielle Patucci,
The Walker Brothers,
Amon Düül II,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Eli Mardock,
Monolake,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Marc Almond,
Kevin Saunderson,
Silicon Teens,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
U.S. Maple,
Kool Moe Dee,
Brass Construction,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Eric Copeland,
James White and The Blacks,
Sarah Menescal,
Sun City Girls,
Liliput,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Todd Terry,
Con Funk Shun,
Zapp,
Bob Dylan,
Sam Rivers,
The J.B.'s,
China Crisis,
Lalann,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Toasters,
Chris Corsano,
Morten Harket,
Pole,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Birthday Party,
The Skatalites,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Brand Nubian,
Joe Finger,
Can,
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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.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.