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 Taiwan and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 Copenhagen and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Johnny Clarke to the grunge 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 Lower 48. All the underground hits.
All Soulsonic Force tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Velvet Underground record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 an arpeggiator and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thee Headcoats record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jeff Lynne,
Idris Muhammad,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Saints,
Duran Duran,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
CMW,
Absolute Body Control,
Chris & Cosey,
Mary Jane Girls,
Anakelly,
Robert Görl,
Sun Ra,
Groovy Waters,
Fat Boys,
Danielle Patucci,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Newcleus,
The Index,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Boz Scaggs,
Swell Maps,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Blackbyrds,
Faraquet,
Deadbeat,
Roxy Music,
The Count Five,
World's Most,
a-ha,
Warsaw,
Eurythmics,
Silicon Teens,
Khruangbin,
The Leaves,
Mantronix,
Hashim,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Symarip,
New York Dolls,
Crime,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Tropical Tobacco,
Ralphi Rosario,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Amon Düül II,
Mars,
The Real Kids,
T. Rex,
Basic Channel,
Robert Hood,
The Pretty Things,
Ultravox,
The Doobie Brothers,
MDC,
Peter & Gordon,
ABBA,
Drexciya,
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