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 Russia and from Mumbai.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Half Japanese 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 The Motions. All the underground hits.
All Marshall Jefferson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Mummies 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amon Düül record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ultimate Spinach,
Man Eating Sloth,
Nico,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Neon Judgement,
Sixth Finger,
Icehouse,
Don Cherry,
Connie Case,
Urselle,
Model 500,
Jimmy McGriff,
Unrelated Segments,
Dorothy Ashby,
Malaria!,
Cybotron,
Aloha Tigers,
The Offenders,
Joensuu 1685,
Cal Tjader,
Althea and Donna,
The Gories,
Letta Mbulu,
Von Mondo,
Idris Muhammad,
UT,
Simply Red,
Albert Ayler,
Patti Smith,
Alton Ellis,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Busters,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Skaos,
John Lydon,
Groovy Waters,
The Gun Club,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Thee Headcoats,
Reagan Youth,
Moss Icon,
The Fire Engines,
Hardrive,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Eric Copeland,
PIL,
Fugazi,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Toasters,
Tres Demented,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Blackbyrds,
Trumans Water,
Public Image Ltd.,
X-101,
Desert Stars,
Lyres,
Dennis Brown,
Soul II Soul,
Jeff Lynne,
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