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 Kiribati and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Lafayette Afro Rock Band to the rock kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Clear Light. All the underground hits.
All Sarah Menescal tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Motions record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 808 and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Youth Brigade record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Audionom,
The Mummies,
Danielle Patucci,
Lucky Dragons,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Electric Prunes,
Sister Nancy,
Alison Limerick,
Roy Ayers,
The Barracudas,
The Residents,
Lindisfarne,
The Sound,
Nico,
Gil Scott Heron,
Sonic Youth,
The Trojans,
Chris & Cosey,
The Walker Brothers,
Anakelly,
Basic Channel,
New York Dolls,
Scrapy,
Josef K,
The Selecter,
Goldenarms,
Suburban Knight,
Hardrive,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Cramps,
Erasure,
Alton Ellis,
Mary Jane Girls,
B.T. Express,
Fat Boys,
Newcleus,
Tears for Fears,
Black Flag,
The Techniques,
Robert Wyatt,
The J.B.'s,
The Happenings,
Harmonia,
The Buckinghams,
Mark Hollis,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Fluxion,
Babytalk,
Scientists,
Rekid,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Royal Trux,
The Smoke,
The Leaves,
The Zeros,
Flamin' Groovies,
Darondo,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Pantaleimon,
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