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 New Zealand and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Bizarre Inc. to the dance kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Peter & Gordon. All the underground hits.
All Wally Richardson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eli Mardock 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mission of Burma,
Slick Rick,
Harmonia,
Q and Not U,
Black Moon,
Shuggie Otis,
Eli Mardock,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Moss Icon,
Gabor Szabo,
James White and The Blacks,
Simply Red,
Mark Hollis,
Davy DMX,
June of 44,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Nils Olav,
Siglo XX,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Pulsallama,
Rakim,
Dennis Brown,
Sister Nancy,
cv313,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Grass Roots,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
X-Ray Spex,
Reagan Youth,
the Association,
The Five Americans,
Public Enemy,
Joey Negro,
Rapeman,
Hardrive,
The Raincoats,
The Residents,
Rotary Connection,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Kevin Saunderson,
Ohio Players,
Kenny Larkin,
Tears for Fears,
Glenn Branca,
Pharoah Sanders,
EPMD,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Golliwogs,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
the Germs,
Isaac Hayes,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
H. Thieme,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Quando Quango,
Maurizio,
Delon & Dalcan,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
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You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
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