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 Morocco and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 The New Christs to the grunge 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 Dead Boys. All the underground hits.
All Model 500 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Cowsills 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hasil Adkins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mo-Dettes,
Slave,
Urselle,
Ultimate Spinach,
Moby Grape,
Juan Atkins,
Underground Resistance,
Barclay James Harvest,
Maurizio,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Supertramp,
Public Enemy,
Peter & Gordon,
June Days,
The Remains,
Wire,
The Young Rascals,
Janne Schatter,
the Slits,
Rites of Spring,
Popol Vuh,
cv313,
Section 25,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Fatback Band,
The Skatalites,
Marvin Gaye,
The Alarm Clocks,
Lakeside,
Ultra Naté,
Don Cherry,
Quadrant,
The Techniques,
Scratch Acid,
Parry Music,
Peter and Kerry,
The Durutti Column,
X-Ray Spex,
Bob Dylan,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Shadows of Knight,
Soft Machine,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Joe Finger,
These Immortal Souls,
Silicon Teens,
The Detroit Cobras,
DNA,
X-101,
Lee Hazlewood,
One Last Wish,
Rosa Yemen,
A Certain Ratio,
Robert Hood,
Sight & Sound,
Tim Buckley,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Roy Ayers,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
John Lydon,
Derrick Morgan,
Roxy Music,
Pylon,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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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.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.