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 Ireland and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Camouflage to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Aaron Thompson. All the underground hits.
All ABC tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Matthew Halsall record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum 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?
Metal Thangz,
Jandek,
Bobby Womack,
The Martian,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Blancmange,
Skaos,
Agitation Free,
Section 25,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Soul II Soul,
Skarface,
Tears for Fears,
F. McDonald,
Trumans Water,
Minutemen,
Monolake,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Infiniti,
The Cure,
Rakim,
Pharoah Sanders,
Black Flag,
Soft Machine,
Isaac Hayes,
The Raincoats,
Newcleus,
Harmonia,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
A Certain Ratio,
Joe Finger,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Deakin,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
OOIOO,
Sandy B,
China Crisis,
Whodini,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Colin Newman,
The Last Poets,
Kerri Chandler,
Vladislav Delay,
The Gun Club,
Pantytec,
Warsaw,
Wings,
Au Pairs,
Ken Boothe,
LL Cool J,
Magma,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Nation of Ulysses,
Fugazi,
The Moody Blues,
Talk Talk,
Deadbeat,
The Barracudas,
John Holt,
Rekid,
Basic Channel,
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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.