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 Suriname and from Sao Paulo.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 A Flock of Seagulls to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Red Lorry Yellow Lorry. All the underground hits.
All cv313 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Piero Umiliani record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 harpsichord and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a La Düsseldorf record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ice-T,
The Fire Engines,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Gregory Isaacs,
Young Marble Giants,
Amazonics,
The Standells,
Iggy Pop,
OOIOO,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Groovy Waters,
Los Fastidios,
PIL,
The Saints,
Jeff Lynne,
Kurtis Blow,
Anthony Braxton,
Pagans,
Cal Tjader,
Alphaville,
Index,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Moss Icon,
Grey Daturas,
Junior Murvin,
Agitation Free,
the Fania All-Stars,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Birthday Party,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Tomorrow,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Ossler,
L. Decosne,
48th St. Collective,
Letta Mbulu,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Little Man,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Star Department,
Mars,
Half Japanese,
Black Pus,
LL Cool J,
Crispian St. Peters,
Joe Finger,
Kool Moe Dee,
Fatback Band,
Bill Near,
Lalann,
Althea and Donna,
CMW,
Scrapy,
Vainqueur,
Morten Harket,
Johnny Clarke,
Tom Boy,
Alison Limerick,
New York Dolls,
Idris Muhammad,
F. McDonald,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Severed Heads,
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