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 Nicaragua and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle show in London.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the güiro 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 The Residents to the electroclash 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 Josef K. All the underground hits.
All Fad Gadget tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Buckinghams record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Cramps record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Skriet,
Todd Rundgren,
Heaven 17,
Scratch Acid,
Sex Pistols,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Fat Boys,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Bill Wells,
MC5,
Joe Smooth,
The Walker Brothers,
The Saints,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Standells,
Roger Hodgson,
Warsaw,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Rod Modell,
Angry Samoans,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
June Days,
This Heat,
8 Eyed Spy,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Joensuu 1685,
Robert Wyatt,
Ituana,
Aaron Thompson,
Tomorrow,
The Five Americans,
Joyce Sims,
Derrick Morgan,
Television,
Fluxion,
Wire,
Agitation Free,
The Sound,
Flipper,
Bobby Sherman,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Mummies,
The Gap Band,
KRS-One,
Pantytec,
Delon & Dalcan,
Panda Bear,
Neil Young,
Grandmaster Flash,
Deadbeat,
The Remains,
Cluster,
Lakeside,
Jeru the Damaja,
LL Cool J,
Todd Terry,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
FM Einheit,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Lyres,
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