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 Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the güiro 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 Kool Moe Dee to the disco kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 John Lydon. All the underground hits.
All Das Ding tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Television 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pet Shop Boys record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Trumans Water,
John Holt,
James White and The Blacks,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Swans,
Alison Limerick,
A Certain Ratio,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Toasters,
Japan,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Tres Demented,
The Raincoats,
Suicide,
The Happenings,
John Coltrane,
Hoover,
Procol Harum,
Barrington Levy,
Bootsy Collins,
Gong,
Groovy Waters,
Can,
Curtis Mayfield,
Main Source,
Soul II Soul,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Duran Duran,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
the Slits,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Harpers Bizarre,
H. Thieme,
Slick Rick,
The Detroit Cobras,
Colin Newman,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Leaves,
The Star Department,
The Gladiators,
Moss Icon,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Cheater Slicks,
Sex Pistols,
Silicon Teens,
Sexual Harrassment,
Donald Byrd,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
D'Angelo,
The Index,
Cymande,
Smog,
Delon & Dalcan,
Sam Rivers,
Nik Kershaw,
The Wake,
Crispian St. Peters,
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