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 Guyana and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 arpeggiator 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 Ituana to the electroclash 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 New Order. All the underground hits.
All Radio Birdman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a 8 Eyed Spy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sarah Menescal,
Maleditus Sound,
Rotary Connection,
Dual Sessions,
Camouflage,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Alton Ellis,
Scratch Acid,
Groovy Waters,
Joe Smooth,
Yazoo,
The Slits,
Jeru the Damaja,
Lakeside,
Bob Dylan,
Bobby Byrd,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
This Heat,
Boz Scaggs,
Bang On A Can,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Shadows of Knight,
Ronnie Foster,
Jandek,
Oblivians,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Iggy Pop,
Dead Boys,
Wire,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Quadrant,
Gastr Del Sol,
Moby Grape,
CMW,
Lightning Bolt,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Mission of Burma,
Erykah Badu,
Panda Bear,
Jerry's Kids,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
D'Angelo,
Deepchord,
Chris Corsano,
Warsaw,
The Sonics,
The Star Department,
Leonard Cohen,
The Leaves,
Lou Christie,
Newcleus,
Judy Mowatt,
Das Ding,
Los Fastidios,
Amazonics,
Ossler,
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.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.