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 Bahrain and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Schoolly D to the punk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Joe Smooth. All the underground hits.
All Oneida tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Massinfluence record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lou Reed record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Loose Ends,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
DNA,
Magazine,
The Invisible,
The Grass Roots,
Banda Bassotti,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
PIL,
La Düsseldorf,
Index,
Moby Grape,
Circle Jerks,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Outsiders,
Bronski Beat,
Ronnie Foster,
Harmonia,
Public Enemy,
Agent Orange,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Clear Light,
The Music Machine,
Q and Not U,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Detroit Cobras,
The American Breed,
The Sonics,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Buzzcocks,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Glenn Branca,
Boogie Down Productions,
Hoover,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Fortunes,
Depeche Mode,
The Standells,
KRS-One,
Chrome,
Rekid,
Joey Negro,
The Beau Brummels,
Skarface,
Organ,
the Association,
Flamin' Groovies,
Khruangbin,
Mr. Review,
Absolute Body Control,
Swans,
Urselle,
AZ,
Cecil Taylor,
T. Rex,
Faraquet,
Deadbeat,
Jeff Lynne,
Prince Buster,
Quantec,
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