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 Nepal and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1970 at the first Onyeabor practice in a loft in Enugu.
I was working on the oboe 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 Babytalk to the funk 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 La Düsseldorf. All the underground hits.
All The Blues Magoos tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Harpers Bizarre record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Guru Guru,
Ralphi Rosario,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Talk Talk,
Masters at Work,
Eddi Front,
Rotary Connection,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Tropical Tobacco,
Lou Christie,
The Five Americans,
Reuben Wilson,
Ponytail,
Urselle,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Kas Product,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Human League,
Heaven 17,
Rod Modell,
Bobby Sherman,
The Durutti Column,
The Modern Lovers,
The Happenings,
Brothers Johnson,
Theoretical Girls,
The Zeros,
H. Thieme,
Bob Dylan,
Kayak,
Tres Demented,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Michelle Simonal,
Kerrie Biddell,
Patti Smith,
Mandrill,
Matthew Bourne,
48th St. Collective,
Soul Sonic Force,
Model 500,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Ultravox,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Eric B and Rakim,
Slave,
Motorama,
The Dave Clark Five,
Steve Hackett,
The Monks,
the Human League,
Dawn Penn,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Wolf Eyes,
The Index,
Eric Copeland,
Matthew Halsall,
Hashim,
Black Moon,
Cymande,
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