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 Iraq and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the oboe 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 Bobby Sherman to the funk 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 Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog. All the underground hits.
All Ten City tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wire record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 an oboe and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bad Manners record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The United States of America,
Subhumans,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Boz Scaggs,
Marine Girls,
The Gladiators,
June of 44,
The Buckinghams,
The Birthday Party,
Nas,
Monolake,
Nation of Ulysses,
Hasil Adkins,
Gang Green,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Rekid,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Misunderstood,
Roxette,
The Fuzztones,
Yellowson,
Sight & Sound,
EPMD,
Reagan Youth,
Ossler,
Minny Pops,
Carl Craig,
Alton Ellis,
Ken Boothe,
Leonard Cohen,
The Detroit Cobras,
James Chance & The Contortions,
X-Ray Spex,
Mantronix,
Panda Bear,
Hardrive,
Public Image Ltd.,
Blake Baxter,
The Motions,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Marc Almond,
The Star Department,
Schoolly D,
Magazine,
Terry Callier,
John Foxx,
Dawn Penn,
Underground Resistance,
Lou Christie,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Scion,
Barbara Tucker,
Warren Ellis,
Bizarre Inc.,
Grandmaster Flash,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Rites of Spring,
Adolescents,
Jimmy McGriff,
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You don't know what you really want.
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