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 Panama and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Copenhagen.
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 1983 at the first Bronski Beat practice in a loft in Brixton.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Sight & Sound 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 The Misunderstood. All the underground hits.
All John Coltrane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rekid record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
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 Gregory Isaacs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Pretty Things,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Moby Grape,
Todd Terry,
Nas,
Ronan,
The Flesh Eaters,
Buzzcocks,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Jacob Miller,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Max Romeo,
Vladislav Delay,
Lucky Dragons,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Bluetip,
Junior Murvin,
The Modern Lovers,
Soft Cell,
Ralphi Rosario,
Thee Headcoats,
Boredoms,
Bobby Womack,
Minutemen,
Prince Buster,
Lou Christie,
ABC,
Kaleidoscope,
Todd Rundgren,
Amon Düül II,
Rufus Thomas,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Quando Quango,
Bizarre Inc.,
Liliput,
The Shadows of Knight,
Roy Ayers,
Pagans,
A Certain Ratio,
Audionom,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Ultravox,
Television Personalities,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Joey Negro,
Marvin Gaye,
Jeru the Damaja,
Deadbeat,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Subhumans,
T.S.O.L.,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Divine Comedy,
10cc,
The J.B.'s,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Schoolly D,
The Dirtbombs,
The Music Machine,
DeepChord presents Echospace, DeepChord presents Echospace, DeepChord presents Echospace, DeepChord presents Echospace.
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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.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.