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 Argentina and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the guitar 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 EPMD to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Wire. All the underground hits.
All Eddi Front tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roy Ayers Ubiquity record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 linndrum and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bill Wells record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Chris Corsano,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Arab on Radar,
Fugazi,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Cal Tjader,
Bill Near,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Five Americans,
The United States of America,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Echospace,
Average White Band,
Fad Gadget,
Faust,
The Standells,
T.S.O.L.,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Lee Hazlewood,
Pere Ubu,
Bobby Womack,
The Beau Brummels,
Rufus Thomas,
Connie Case,
The Neon Judgement,
The Birthday Party,
Derrick Morgan,
Frankie Knuckles,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
a-ha,
Lower 48,
Laurel Aitken,
The Modern Lovers,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Minny Pops,
the Fania All-Stars,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Vainqueur,
Shoche,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Second Layer,
Eve St. Jones,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Selecter,
The Motions,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Sun City Girls,
Adolescents,
The Doobie Brothers,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Tropical Tobacco,
Alice Coltrane,
Von Mondo,
Cybotron,
Tom Boy,
Davy DMX,
Urselle,
The American Breed,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Grass Roots,
Max Romeo,
Unrelated Segments,
Blake Baxter,
Altered Images,
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