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 Denmark and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Eurythmics to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Arcadia. All the underground hits.
All Pharoah Sanders tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Liliput record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Shoche record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Ten City,
Blake Baxter,
Johnny Clarke,
Bob Dylan,
Lebanon Hanover,
Terry Callier,
Mandrill,
Jacques Brel,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
La Düsseldorf,
Los Fastidios,
Electric Prunes,
Gang Green,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Main Source,
The Fugs,
Ludus,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Make Up,
Eve St. Jones,
Danielle Patucci,
The Remains,
Flash Fearless,
Soft Machine,
John Foxx,
Jeff Mills,
Bill Wells,
Niagra,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Scott Walker,
Pylon,
The Dave Clark Five,
David Axelrod,
The Offenders,
Todd Terry,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Dorothy Ashby,
Soulsonic Force,
The Tremeloes,
Jandek,
Livin' Joy,
Smog,
Urselle,
the Germs,
Q65,
The Angels of Light,
Sarah Menescal,
Dennis Brown,
Aaron Thompson,
The Evens,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Essential Logic,
The Names,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Au Pairs,
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