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 Tonga and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Quantec to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Bootsy's Rubber Band. All the underground hits.
All Darondo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alison Limerick record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jandek 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 Association,
Isaac Hayes,
Pole,
Dawn Penn,
Banda Bassotti,
Cal Tjader,
Junior Murvin,
Pierre Henry,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Pantytec,
The Five Americans,
The Wake,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Robert Wyatt,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Audionom,
Shuggie Otis,
Second Layer,
Yaz,
Piero Umiliani,
Skaos,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
June of 44,
Crime,
Kaleidoscope,
Jeru the Damaja,
Jacques Brel,
The Blackbyrds,
Josef K,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Birthday Party,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Arcadia,
Los Fastidios,
Smog,
New Order,
Stetsasonic,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
DJ Sneak,
Ohio Players,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Fire Engines,
The United States of America,
Zapp,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Amon Düül,
The Knickerbockers,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Mojo Men,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Ice-T,
Reuben Wilson,
Gang of Four,
Agent Orange,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Crooked Eye,
X-102,
Jacob Miller,
LL Cool J,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Major Organ And The Adding Machine.
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You don't know what you really want.
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