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 Mauritania and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Lizzy Mercier Descloux to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Manfred Mann's Earth Band. All the underground hits.
All Dennis Brown tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Monolake record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Maurizio,
Electric Prunes,
The Index,
Wire,
Alice Coltrane,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Zero Boys,
Erasure,
Bizarre Inc.,
Cymande,
X-102,
the Normal,
Jesper Dahlback,
Metal Thangz,
Stetsasonic,
Ten City,
Delta 5,
Eve St. Jones,
Sparks,
a-ha,
Steve Hackett,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Roxette,
F. McDonald,
The Zeros,
Mr. Review,
Duran Duran,
Moby Grape,
The Divine Comedy,
Scott Walker,
The Knickerbockers,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Juan Atkins,
The Fortunes,
Fugazi,
The Shadows of Knight,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Brand Nubian,
Davy DMX,
Loose Ends,
Qualms,
Young Marble Giants,
Nico,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Connie Case,
Slave,
Rapeman,
Au Pairs,
Soft Cell,
Wally Richardson,
Scrapy,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Bobby Byrd,
Chris Corsano,
Simply Red,
Soul II Soul,
Boz Scaggs,
Matthew Halsall,
Jacques Brel,
Babytalk,
Nation of Ulysses,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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