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 Ghana and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Winnipeg.
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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 New Order to the grime kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Jerry's Kids. All the underground hits.
All The Grass Roots tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 spring reverb and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Mummies record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Dave Gahan,
Marshall Jefferson,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Neu!,
Ice-T,
Jimmy McGriff,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Iggy Pop,
Sight & Sound,
Tropical Tobacco,
Erykah Badu,
Public Enemy,
Eve St. Jones,
Arab on Radar,
Can,
Motorama,
Spandau Ballet,
Alton Ellis,
The Real Kids,
Soulsonic Force,
Sparks,
The Gladiators,
The Divine Comedy,
June of 44,
Ronan,
The Last Poets,
Outsiders,
Joy Division,
Brothers Johnson,
Mark Hollis,
Sällskapet,
Donny Hathaway,
Roger Hodgson,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Danielle Patucci,
Glenn Branca,
Absolute Body Control,
Grandmaster Flash,
Kerri Chandler,
Underground Resistance,
Lou Christie,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Rekid,
Johnny Clarke,
Technova,
Brick,
Guru Guru,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Supertramp,
Boogie Down Productions,
Das Ding,
Popol Vuh,
LL Cool J,
Minutemen,
The Raincoats,
China Crisis,
The Fuzztones,
Eric Copeland,
One Last Wish,
Peter & Gordon,
Loose Ends,
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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.