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 Gabon and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Electric Light Orchestra to the electroclash 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 Clear Light. All the underground hits.
All Make Up tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soul Sonic Force 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Richard Hell and the Voidoids record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Matthew Bourne,
AZ,
Sexual Harrassment,
Basic Channel,
Sound Behaviour,
DJ Sneak,
Man Parrish,
Radio Birdman,
Nirvana,
Glenn Branca,
Alphaville,
The Count Five,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Chris Corsano,
The United States of America,
The Skatalites,
Smog,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
David Axelrod,
Bill Near,
Anthony Braxton,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Black Dice,
Gang Green,
Jacob Miller,
Yellowson,
Terrestrial Tones,
the Normal,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
These Immortal Souls,
The Associates,
Swell Maps,
Heaven 17,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Oneida,
The Music Machine,
Lou Reed,
CMW,
Visage,
Fear,
Wasted Youth,
Aloha Tigers,
Pantytec,
Trumans Water,
Wire,
Country Teasers,
D'Angelo,
Wally Richardson,
Grey Daturas,
Sixth Finger,
cv313,
R.M.O.,
Morten Harket,
Sight & Sound,
Zero Boys,
Siglo XX,
Royal Trux,
Mr. Review,
Scrapy,
Eric B and Rakim,
Eric Copeland,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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