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 Trinidad & Tobago and from Manila.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Lafayette Afro Rock Band to the punk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Duran Duran. All the underground hits.
All Cal Tjader tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kerri Chandler record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 rhodes and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eli Mardock record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jeff Lynne,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Vainqueur,
Joyce Sims,
EPMD,
The Fire Engines,
Skriet,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Flipper,
Lou Christie,
Neu!,
Kenny Larkin,
Oneida,
Arcadia,
Gong,
Letta Mbulu,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Kas Product,
Television Personalities,
The Invisible,
Aloha Tigers,
Das Ding,
Tropical Tobacco,
Drexciya,
Maurizio,
Bluetip,
James Chance & The Contortions,
the Soft Cell,
Magma,
The Standells,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Babytalk,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Sonic Youth,
H. Thieme,
Scan 7,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Gories,
The Index,
Clear Light,
In Retrospect,
Peter and Kerry,
Ituana,
Model 500,
Tubeway Army,
Be Bop Deluxe,
L. Decosne,
the Human League,
Duran Duran,
Camberwell Now,
Todd Terry,
Crooked Eye,
Danielle Patucci,
JFA,
Cymande,
Johnny Osbourne,
Scion,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Stetsasonic,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Pretty Things,
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You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
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