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 Ecuador and from Halifax.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the 808 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 Panda Bear to the grime 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 Sexual Harrassment. All the underground hits.
All X-101 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Boogie Down Productions 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vainqueur record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Television Personalities,
Dennis Brown,
Depeche Mode,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Oblivians,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Warsaw,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
R.M.O.,
Vladislav Delay,
Blancmange,
Mark Hollis,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Dirtbombs,
Erasure,
Metal Thangz,
A Certain Ratio,
Barclay James Harvest,
David Bowie,
Young Marble Giants,
Glenn Branca,
The Raincoats,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Amazonics,
These Immortal Souls,
The Gap Band,
Wally Richardson,
One Last Wish,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Circle Jerks,
Zero Boys,
Zapp,
Byron Stingily,
Michelle Simonal,
Marine Girls,
Matthew Bourne,
Jawbox,
Supertramp,
The Sonics,
Carl Craig,
Piero Umiliani,
the Normal,
Faust,
The Angels of Light,
Technova,
Joensuu 1685,
The Zeros,
The Music Machine,
The Gladiators,
Anthony Braxton,
Rakim,
Dave Gahan,
The Moleskins,
Pole,
Ice-T,
cv313,
Erykah Badu,
Moss Icon,
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