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 Micronesia and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Basic Channel to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 The Skatalites. All the underground hits.
All Stiv Bators tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Donny Hathaway 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The United States of America record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pole,
The Slackers,
Skarface,
Glambeats Corp.,
Brothers Johnson,
Ultravox,
Gong,
Schoolly D,
Eve St. Jones,
The Shadows of Knight,
Pantaleimon,
Grauzone,
Dead Boys,
David Bowie,
Camouflage,
Dual Sessions,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Selecter,
FM Einheit,
Scion,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
B.T. Express,
Eden Ahbez,
Vladislav Delay,
Pharoah Sanders,
the Fania All-Stars,
Accadde A,
Matthew Bourne,
Donald Byrd,
Pet Shop Boys,
Metal Thangz,
Rosa Yemen,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Liliput,
Sarah Menescal,
MC5,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Sällskapet,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Flipper,
Das Ding,
Ponytail,
Marine Girls,
Crash Course in Science,
Michelle Simonal,
Ludus,
Model 500,
Fear,
Matthew Halsall,
Laurel Aitken,
The Techniques,
Thee Headcoats,
Faraquet,
Soul II Soul,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Doobie Brothers,
Minutemen,
Yusef Lateef,
Subhumans,
Shuggie Otis,
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