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 Burkina and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez 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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Bologna.
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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Blancmange to the dance kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Tubeway Army. All the underground hits.
All Pylon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Barbara Tucker 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Heaven 17 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Soft Cell,
Radio Birdman,
Graham Central Station,
Boogie Down Productions,
Cecil Taylor,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Black Moon,
Bush Tetras,
Peter and Kerry,
Pere Ubu,
The Tremeloes,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Avey Tare,
Grey Daturas,
Darondo,
The Human League,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Tomorrow,
Kurtis Blow,
Fatback Band,
Magma,
Crispian St. Peters,
U.S. Maple,
Rosa Yemen,
Eli Mardock,
Supertramp,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
AZ,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Massinfluence,
Crispy Ambulance,
Davy DMX,
The Slackers,
Reuben Wilson,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Velvet Underground,
The Busters,
Public Image Ltd.,
Flamin' Groovies,
Matthew Halsall,
Young Marble Giants,
Ohio Players,
Gichy Dan,
Alice Coltrane,
Bad Manners,
Peter & Gordon,
E-Dancer,
Derrick May,
Suicide,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Donald Byrd,
Mission of Burma,
The Cure,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Tom Boy,
Gil Scott Heron,
the Swans,
The Cramps,
the Normal,
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