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 Belgium and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 The Fire Engines to the techno 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 The Chocolate Watch Band. All the underground hits.
All Boredoms tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pussy Galore 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Kas Product,
The Busters,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Electric Prunes,
Big Daddy Kane,
Girls At Our Best!,
Scott Walker,
Robert Görl,
Unwound,
Sex Pistols,
Gichy Dan,
Alice Coltrane,
Patti Smith,
Dawn Penn,
Sly & The Family Stone,
A Certain Ratio,
Toni Rubio,
Jerry's Kids,
Camberwell Now,
Nils Olav,
Bauhaus,
The Evens,
The Gories,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Sarah Menescal,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Minor Threat,
Terrestrial Tones,
Eurythmics,
B.T. Express,
Sight & Sound,
Niagra,
Peter & Gordon,
The Shadows of Knight,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Dead Boys,
Rotary Connection,
Sam Rivers,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Seeds,
Motorama,
La Düsseldorf,
The Blues Magoos,
Sun Ra,
Nick Fraelich,
KRS-One,
T.S.O.L.,
Heaven 17,
Bob Dylan,
Masters at Work,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Juan Atkins,
The American Breed,
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.
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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.