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 Armenia and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
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 Arthur Verocai to the grunge kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Lalann. All the underground hits.
All Dorothy Ashby tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Masters at Work record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gary Puckett & The Union Gap record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David Axelrod,
Shoche,
Joe Smooth,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Echospace,
Crooked Eye,
Marcia Griffiths,
Public Image Ltd.,
Bang On A Can,
Morten Harket,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Sparks,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Trojans,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Lebanon Hanover,
Livin' Joy,
Lucky Dragons,
Delta 5,
Suicide,
Mission of Burma,
Alison Limerick,
Dual Sessions,
Sixth Finger,
Con Funk Shun,
Heaven 17,
Gang of Four,
the Association,
The Neon Judgement,
Babytalk,
Rufus Thomas,
Terrestrial Tones,
Al Stewart,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Vladislav Delay,
Pantytec,
Country Teasers,
The Remains,
Neil Young,
Tubeway Army,
MDC,
Can,
The Sound,
The Vogues,
Hasil Adkins,
Soul Sonic Force,
Joy Division,
Monks,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Gastr Del Sol,
Gil Scott Heron,
Minor Threat,
New Age Steppers,
Man Parrish,
Maurizio,
Unrelated Segments,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
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You don't know what you really want.
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