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 Finland and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the organ 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 Connie Case to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Mantronix. All the underground hits.
All One Last Wish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Freddie Wadling record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delon & Dalcan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Quadrant,
Ornette Coleman,
The Fuzztones,
Crash Course in Science,
Oblivians,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Das Ding,
Fela Kuti,
Pagans,
The Slits,
Girls At Our Best!,
Stockholm Monsters,
Boz Scaggs,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Japan,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Robert Hood,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Khruangbin,
Rufus Thomas,
Dave Gahan,
Swell Maps,
Banda Bassotti,
Radiohead,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Music Machine,
H. Thieme,
New Age Steppers,
The Cramps,
The Dirtbombs,
Alice Coltrane,
Lou Reed,
Gerry Rafferty,
Man Parrish,
Public Enemy,
Minnie Riperton,
China Crisis,
Interpol,
Bootsy Collins,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Bush Tetras,
Harmonia,
Gabor Szabo,
Sam Rivers,
Terrestrial Tones,
Soulsonic Force,
Sällskapet,
Wings,
cv313,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Lou Christie,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Bob Dylan,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Techniques,
Soul Sonic Force,
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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.