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 Syria and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Heaven 17 to the punk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Sister Nancy. All the underground hits.
All Kayak tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Peanut Butter Conspiracy 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The New Christs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Gladiators,
Robert Wyatt,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Archie Shepp,
H. Thieme,
Howard Jones,
EPMD,
Ludus,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Dave Gahan,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Freddie Wadling,
Carl Craig,
Lee Hazlewood,
Jeru the Damaja,
Frankie Knuckles,
Outsiders,
Isaac Hayes,
The Tremeloes,
Tears for Fears,
The Walker Brothers,
Fad Gadget,
The Dave Clark Five,
Byron Stingily,
Shoche,
This Heat,
Avey Tare,
Skaos,
X-102,
Dorothy Ashby,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
John Foxx,
Crash Course in Science,
Scientists,
Rotary Connection,
Sugar Minott,
The Fortunes,
Donald Byrd,
Alison Limerick,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Soft Machine,
Hasil Adkins,
The Motions,
Surgeon,
Gil Scott Heron,
Jimmy McGriff,
Kerri Chandler,
Cybotron,
Marcia Griffiths,
Smog,
Massinfluence,
Sam Rivers,
Amon Düül,
Blake Baxter,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Charles Mingus,
The Techniques,
Spandau Ballet,
Tom Boy,
Wings,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Delon & Dalcan,
Urselle,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
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