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 Burundi and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan to the rap kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 The Sonics. All the underground hits.
All Bootsy Collins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cameo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Golliwogs,
Yusef Lateef,
Quantec,
Newcleus,
Yellowson,
Pharoah Sanders,
Chris & Cosey,
Slave,
Althea and Donna,
Aural Exciters,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Bill Near,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Pretty Things,
Darondo,
June of 44,
Can,
the Human League,
Peter and Kerry,
Absolute Body Control,
Sarah Menescal,
The Residents,
Visage,
Marmalade,
Skarface,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Black Sheep,
Ornette Coleman,
Bizarre Inc.,
New York Dolls,
Crash Course in Science,
ABC,
Eli Mardock,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Bush Tetras,
Harmonia,
Zero Boys,
Sister Nancy,
KRS-One,
Skaos,
a-ha,
Wasted Youth,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Sandy B,
Amazonics,
Sun City Girls,
This Heat,
Loose Ends,
Wally Richardson,
Byron Stingily,
Crime,
Graham Central Station,
Mars,
Tears for Fears,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Marine Girls,
Boogie Down Productions,
Susan Cadogan,
World's Most,
Bluetip,
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