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 Mexico and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1983 at the first Bronski Beat practice in a loft in Brixton.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 John Holt to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Magazine. All the underground hits.
All Fluxion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neil Young 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Niagra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Royal Trux,
This Heat,
Bluetip,
Roxy Music,
Zero Boys,
Andrew Hill,
Buzzcocks,
Aaron Thompson,
Crispian St. Peters,
Pierre Henry,
Tommy Roe,
Tim Buckley,
Mars,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Graham Central Station,
Unrelated Segments,
Rotary Connection,
Joy Division,
Pere Ubu,
Sound Behaviour,
The United States of America,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Sparks,
Can,
Newcleus,
Pharoah Sanders,
Main Source,
The Happenings,
Crooked Eye,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Brand Nubian,
Camouflage,
Duran Duran,
Smog,
Robert Wyatt,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
New York Dolls,
Warsaw,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Skriet,
The Raincoats,
Sarah Menescal,
Malaria!,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Slick Rick,
Popol Vuh,
Jacob Miller,
Big Daddy Kane,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Remains,
Yellowson,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Index,
Soft Cell,
Neil Young,
The Associates,
The Divine Comedy,
Thompson Twins,
Masters at Work,
Make Up,
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