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 Canada and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Idris Muhammad to the crunk 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 June Days. All the underground hits.
All Terry Callier tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alison Limerick record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 an oboe and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camberwell Now record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joey Negro,
The J.B.'s,
a-ha,
Erykah Badu,
Camberwell Now,
Derrick Morgan,
New Order,
Gang Starr,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Joensuu 1685,
Livin' Joy,
Faust,
Sight & Sound,
Flash Fearless,
Ralphi Rosario,
Cal Tjader,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
the Normal,
Chris Corsano,
Technova,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Jesper Dahlback,
Avey Tare,
Bobby Byrd,
Soul II Soul,
The Durutti Column,
Robert Görl,
The Angels of Light,
Outsiders,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Soulsonic Force,
Au Pairs,
Newcleus,
KRS-One,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Saints,
48th St. Collective,
The Music Machine,
Amon Düül II,
Fear,
Amazonics,
Curtis Mayfield,
Gang of Four,
Jeru the Damaja,
the Slits,
In Retrospect,
Marcia Griffiths,
Charles Mingus,
Fugazi,
Kerri Chandler,
Scion,
Jacques Brel,
Agent Orange,
Rekid,
Thompson Twins,
Bang On A Can,
Susan Cadogan,
Lyres,
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