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 Romania and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the theremin 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 Trumans Water to the dance 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 Liliput. All the underground hits.
All Scientists tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every 48th St. Collective record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 an organ and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Coltrane record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dave Gahan,
The Cure,
The Kinks,
Crash Course in Science,
Sonic Youth,
Accadde A,
Man Parrish,
Connie Case,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
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The Real Kids,
Black Pus,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Groovy Waters,
Young Marble Giants,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Rites of Spring,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The New Christs,
Jeff Mills,
Pet Shop Boys,
Tubeway Army,
Tim Buckley,
The Fall,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Japan,
the Bar-Kays,
Jandek,
U.S. Maple,
Moby Grape,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Jacob Miller,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Metal Thangz,
Procol Harum,
the Human League,
Smog,
Los Fastidios,
Neu!,
The Star Department,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Loose Ends,
The Smiths,
The Victims,
The Gap Band,
Ultravox,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Monochrome Set,
Godley & Creme,
Joyce Sims,
Brass Construction,
Peter & Gordon,
Gang Starr,
Idris Muhammad,
Ludus,
Drive Like Jehu,
Janne Schatter,
Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd..
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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.