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 Liechtenstein and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Gian Franco Pienzio to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Eden Ahbez. All the underground hits.
All Eddi Front tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minor Threat 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Slackers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
T.S.O.L.,
Oneida,
Public Enemy,
Mr. Review,
Cal Tjader,
Rod Modell,
The Victims,
Thee Headcoats,
The Grass Roots,
Jimmy McGriff,
Jeff Lynne,
Danielle Patucci,
The Fall,
Easy Going,
L. Decosne,
Connie Case,
Unrelated Segments,
Yazoo,
Todd Rundgren,
Pagans,
The Gories,
David Bowie,
Pussy Galore,
X-102,
Brick,
Dorothy Ashby,
Barclay James Harvest,
R.M.O.,
Model 500,
These Immortal Souls,
Hashim,
Brand Nubian,
Tres Demented,
Rites of Spring,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Crispy Ambulance,
Ornette Coleman,
Erasure,
Underground Resistance,
Young Marble Giants,
The Stooges,
MC5,
Rotary Connection,
Nirvana,
Vladislav Delay,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Flipper,
Alison Limerick,
The Residents,
Scion,
Glenn Branca,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Zeros,
Gichy Dan,
Wasted Youth,
Kayak,
Kurtis Blow,
Youth Brigade,
Gabor Szabo,
Camberwell Now,
Junior Murvin,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Quantec,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
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.