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 Uzbekistan and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 DeepChord presents Echospace to the dance kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Nils Olav. All the underground hits.
All Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Oneida 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a La Düsseldorf record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin 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 Smiths,
Sonic Youth,
The Red Krayola,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Erykah Badu,
Joensuu 1685,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Robert Wyatt,
Monolake,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Tremeloes,
Albert Ayler,
Sonny Sharrock,
DJ Sneak,
The Fire Engines,
Subhumans,
Skaos,
the Association,
Make Up,
Delon & Dalcan,
Brass Construction,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Flesh Eaters,
Eden Ahbez,
Thee Headcoats,
Electric Prunes,
The Leaves,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
ABBA,
Peter & Gordon,
Tubeway Army,
Nas,
10cc,
The Gories,
Lungfish,
Wings,
Ponytail,
Judy Mowatt,
Gerry Rafferty,
Kenny Larkin,
Chris Corsano,
Faraquet,
Model 500,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Angry Samoans,
Leonard Cohen,
Unrelated Segments,
Wally Richardson,
Ohio Players,
Reuben Wilson,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Electric Prunes,
Soulsonic Force,
the Normal,
Motorama,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Nick Fraelich,
Archie Shepp,
Kevin Saunderson,
Barrington Levy,
The Golliwogs,
Black Sheep,
Carl Craig,
The Detroit Cobras,
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You don't know what you really want.
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