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 Guinea-Bissau and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Agitation Free to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Inner City. All the underground hits.
All Saccharine Trust tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Avey Tare 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Massinfluence record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Warsaw,
Neil Young,
The Moleskins,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Arthur Verocai,
Chris & Cosey,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
the Association,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Pere Ubu,
Neu!,
Joey Negro,
Intrusion,
Accadde A,
Section 25,
Todd Terry,
Adolescents,
The Real Kids,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Camberwell Now,
X-Ray Spex,
Hot Snakes,
Sound Behaviour,
Porter Ricks,
the Bar-Kays,
The Wake,
Hashim,
the Human League,
Dead Boys,
Magma,
Scan 7,
Surgeon,
the Slits,
The Trojans,
D'Angelo,
Bizarre Inc.,
One Last Wish,
The Slits,
Pantytec,
Easy Going,
Juan Atkins,
Loose Ends,
Scientists,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
AZ,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Drexciya,
Harmonia,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Negative Approach,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Angry Samoans,
Letta Mbulu,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Rufus Thomas,
Henry Cow,
This Heat,
Pharoah Sanders,
Deadbeat,
Radiopuhelimet,
Rhythm & Sound,
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