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 Singapore and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Angels of Light & Akron/Family to the grime 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 Bauhaus. All the underground hits.
All Black Sheep tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yaz record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Essential Logic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
John Lydon,
Roxy Music,
The Kinks,
Absolute Body Control,
Los Fastidios,
Jesper Dahlback,
Brothers Johnson,
The J.B.'s,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Nick Fraelich,
Interpol,
Icehouse,
James White and The Blacks,
Jacob Miller,
Mark Hollis,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Todd Rundgren,
Sexual Harrassment,
Jandek,
Johnny Clarke,
Gichy Dan,
Oneida,
Matthew Bourne,
Erykah Badu,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Sonics,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Lebanon Hanover,
Barry Ungar,
Rhythm & Sound,
Second Layer,
Sparks,
Zapp,
Howard Jones,
Stockholm Monsters,
Gerry Rafferty,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Babytalk,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Gil Scott Heron,
Masters at Work,
David McCallum,
La Düsseldorf,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Boredoms,
Brass Construction,
Harry Pussy,
Tres Demented,
Sarah Menescal,
Alphaville,
Aloha Tigers,
Yellowson,
Rites of Spring,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Lalo Schifrin,
Roy Ayers,
Peter & Gordon,
Easy Going,
Lightning Bolt,
The Buckinghams,
Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd..
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.
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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.