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 Armenia and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 marimba 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 Josef K to the disco 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 Andrew Hill. All the underground hits.
All Duran Duran tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Model 500 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 snare and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ultimate Spinach record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Doors,
Black Pus,
Television,
Drexciya,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Gerry Rafferty,
Donald Byrd,
Grey Daturas,
Main Source,
Suburban Knight,
The Evens,
Marvin Gaye,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Moebius,
Average White Band,
Barbara Tucker,
Funkadelic,
The Fortunes,
Robert Görl,
Pussy Galore,
Harry Pussy,
Marmalade,
Boogie Down Productions,
Gichy Dan,
Man Eating Sloth,
Cheater Slicks,
Dave Gahan,
Trumans Water,
Gang of Four,
The Red Krayola,
The Gap Band,
Second Layer,
Flipper,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Lalo Schifrin,
Alphaville,
Girls At Our Best!,
The United States of America,
Patti Smith,
China Crisis,
Pole,
The Blues Magoos,
Barrington Levy,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Yellowson,
Groovy Waters,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Youth Brigade,
Supertramp,
John Cale,
Public Enemy,
Blake Baxter,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Cure,
Grandmaster Flash,
Circle Jerks,
Maleditus Sound,
Zapp,
The Moleskins,
Josef K,
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