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 Moldova and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Harpers Bizarre to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Robert Wyatt. All the underground hits.
All Index tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Anakelly 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Tom Boy,
Suicide,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Jawbox,
Television Personalities,
Curtis Mayfield,
Johnny Osbourne,
Kenny Larkin,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Delon & Dalcan,
LL Cool J,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Moody Blues,
Franke,
Susan Cadogan,
Oblivians,
Colin Newman,
June of 44,
Stockholm Monsters,
Arab on Radar,
Davy DMX,
Agent Orange,
Skarface,
Lee Hazlewood,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
the Fania All-Stars,
Wasted Youth,
Lou Reed,
Beasts of Bourbon,
China Crisis,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
These Immortal Souls,
Bizarre Inc.,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Reagan Youth,
The Monochrome Set,
Matthew Halsall,
The Pretty Things,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Outsiders,
DJ Style,
Josef K,
Silicon Teens,
Barbara Tucker,
Al Stewart,
Althea and Donna,
Stereo Dub,
Interpol,
Sister Nancy,
The New Christs,
The Seeds,
X-102,
Sun Ra,
The Gories,
Ultimate Spinach,
Dorothy Ashby,
Mary Jane Girls,
Funky Four + One,
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