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 Germany and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Taipei.
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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Ultra Naté to the dance 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 Eyeless In Gaza. All the underground hits.
All Blossom Toes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rod Modell record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 theremin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rufus Thomas record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Cowsills,
Bill Wells,
Erasure,
New Age Steppers,
The Fall,
The Sound,
Minor Threat,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Lindisfarne,
Leonard Cohen,
Aaron Thompson,
Symarip,
Sparks,
Brand Nubian,
Josef K,
Chrome,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Shoche,
Delon & Dalcan,
Amazonics,
Robert Wyatt,
Graham Central Station,
Moebius,
Brass Construction,
PIL,
Funky Four + One,
Ken Boothe,
The Grass Roots,
The Gap Band,
Soul Sonic Force,
Boz Scaggs,
The Monochrome Set,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Jeff Lynne,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Alison Limerick,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Nation of Ulysses,
Vladislav Delay,
Dead Boys,
The Evens,
Lou Reed,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Qualms,
Hasil Adkins,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Durutti Column,
Scott Walker,
Danielle Patucci,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Blues Magoos,
Flipper,
The Seeds,
The Index,
Average White Band,
In Retrospect,
Tubeway Army,
Derrick May,
Peter and Kerry,
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