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 Belarus and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Bronski Beat show in Brixton.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Nas to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 New York Dolls. All the underground hits.
All Deadbeat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter and Kerry record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Zero Boys record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jacques Brel,
Agitation Free,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Severed Heads,
Peter & Gordon,
Surgeon,
Underground Resistance,
ABC,
Siglo XX,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Morten Harket,
Khruangbin,
Johnny Osbourne,
Soul Sonic Force,
Warsaw,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Jandek,
Ohio Players,
The American Breed,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Mantronix,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Blancmange,
Deadbeat,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Technova,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Masters at Work,
Neil Young,
Hashim,
Youth Brigade,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Kayak,
Juan Atkins,
The Young Rascals,
Henry Cow,
Maleditus Sound,
Schoolly D,
Flipper,
Black Moon,
Altered Images,
Thee Headcoats,
Camouflage,
Grauzone,
The Birthday Party,
The Searchers,
Niagra,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
JFA,
The Standells,
Brothers Johnson,
The Residents,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Section 25,
The Pretty Things,
The Mojo Men,
8 Eyed Spy,
Funky Four + One,
Circle Jerks,
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