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 Germany and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the güiro 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 8 Eyed Spy to the dance kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Hot Snakes. All the underground hits.
All Max Romeo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Donald Byrd record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sonny Sharrock record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Arcadia,
The Angels of Light,
Barclay James Harvest,
Minutemen,
The Trojans,
X-101,
Yusef Lateef,
Erykah Badu,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Marmalade,
Mary Jane Girls,
John Cale,
Lucky Dragons,
AZ,
The Music Machine,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Five Americans,
Fugazi,
Steve Hackett,
Lindisfarne,
The Moleskins,
Wings,
The Slackers,
Eurythmics,
Dave Gahan,
The Cure,
Drexciya,
Deadbeat,
China Crisis,
Average White Band,
Easy Going,
Sällskapet,
Sight & Sound,
Brand Nubian,
Hasil Adkins,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Howard Jones,
Reuben Wilson,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Crash Course in Science,
Quadrant,
Ituana,
Icehouse,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Monochrome Set,
Radio Birdman,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Invisible,
Moss Icon,
The Durutti Column,
New Age Steppers,
Eden Ahbez,
Skarface,
Terrestrial Tones,
Angry Samoans,
Glenn Branca,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
MC5,
Letta Mbulu,
Tommy Roe,
Public Image Ltd.,
UT, UT, UT, UT.
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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.