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 Brazil and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Electric Light Orchestra to the disco 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 Fugazi. All the underground hits.
All Joe Finger tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Agent Orange 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sonic Youth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rufus Thomas,
Cluster,
Tears for Fears,
Harmonia,
Boz Scaggs,
The Martian,
Lakeside,
Matthew Halsall,
Make Up,
Tropical Tobacco,
Minutemen,
Gang Starr,
Clear Light,
Camouflage,
Bluetip,
Unwound,
Joy Division,
Bobby Byrd,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Velvet Underground,
The Moody Blues,
In Retrospect,
The Victims,
Zapp,
Kerrie Biddell,
Arcadia,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Alarm Clocks,
Absolute Body Control,
Jerry's Kids,
The Buckinghams,
Thee Headcoats,
Icehouse,
Deepchord,
Barclay James Harvest,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Goldenarms,
Erykah Badu,
Steve Hackett,
Marmalade,
Angry Samoans,
Monks,
Tres Demented,
Josef K,
Stiv Bators,
Man Parrish,
Sun City Girls,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Doors,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Marc Almond,
UT,
Ponytail,
Charles Mingus,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
X-101,
China Crisis,
Althea and Donna,
Nas,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Wally Richardson,
Television Personalities,
OOIOO,
R.M.O., R.M.O., R.M.O., R.M.O..
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.