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 Bangladesh and from Seoul.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the snare 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 Idris Muhammad to the dance 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 Tomorrow. All the underground hits.
All Thompson Twins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scion 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mark Hollis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grey Daturas,
Isaac Hayes,
Althea and Donna,
Reuben Wilson,
Anthony Braxton,
Mark Hollis,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
ABC,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Offenders,
Scientists,
Stereo Dub,
Camouflage,
Nick Fraelich,
MDC,
Newcleus,
Ponytail,
Max Romeo,
Theoretical Girls,
Mission of Burma,
Cybotron,
Junior Murvin,
Pulsallama,
Jeff Mills,
Rufus Thomas,
Bootsy Collins,
Robert Görl,
Siglo XX,
Soul Sonic Force,
Iggy Pop,
Joe Smooth,
Glambeats Corp.,
In Retrospect,
Barrington Levy,
Henry Cow,
Niagra,
Smog,
Babytalk,
Boogie Down Productions,
Maurizio,
Malaria!,
Excepter,
Schoolly D,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Animal Collective,
Delta 5,
Tom Boy,
Jacques Brel,
Metal Thangz,
The Slackers,
Deepchord,
Public Image Ltd.,
Crash Course in Science,
Radio Birdman,
Black Flag,
kango's stein massive,
The Real Kids,
Pagans,
a-ha,
Spandau Ballet,
Drive Like Jehu,
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