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 Serbia and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Copenhagen.
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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Bob Dylan to the disco 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 Kenny Larkin. All the underground hits.
All Fat Boys tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Japan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 snare and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Henry Cow record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Association,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Kerri Chandler,
Minor Threat,
the Slits,
Minnie Riperton,
Cybotron,
Television Personalities,
Eve St. Jones,
Model 500,
Nils Olav,
Soft Cell,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Grey Daturas,
Camouflage,
Hot Snakes,
The Associates,
The Techniques,
Symarip,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Interpol,
T.S.O.L.,
Erasure,
Kayak,
Toni Rubio,
The Walker Brothers,
Flipper,
Johnny Osbourne,
Alton Ellis,
The Modern Lovers,
Lou Christie,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Soul Sonic Force,
Metal Thangz,
Cal Tjader,
Delta 5,
Silicon Teens,
Rotary Connection,
Malaria!,
Kevin Saunderson,
Ken Boothe,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Banda Bassotti,
Swell Maps,
Susan Cadogan,
the Bar-Kays,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Roy Ayers,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
F. McDonald,
Audionom,
Simply Red,
The Tremeloes,
Chris & Cosey,
Bootsy Collins,
Animal Collective,
Delon & Dalcan,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Khruangbin,
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