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 Serbia and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and New York.
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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Brand Nubian to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Chrome. All the underground hits.
All Skaos tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soul II Soul record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 arpeggiator and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Notorious Big And Bone Thugs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Happenings,
Icehouse,
Pet Shop Boys,
Technova,
Basic Channel,
Lyres,
Harpers Bizarre,
Pharoah Sanders,
Sparks,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Television,
UT,
The Moleskins,
Roxy Music,
Kenny Larkin,
The Human League,
Unrelated Segments,
Althea and Donna,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Barracudas,
Von Mondo,
Stiv Bators,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Fuzztones,
Reagan Youth,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Brick,
New York Dolls,
Yazoo,
Zapp,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Kayak,
Jimmy McGriff,
Cameo,
Radio Birdman,
Ludus,
Kerri Chandler,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
a-ha,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Ohio Players,
Fluxion,
Qualms,
ABBA,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Amon Düül II,
Angry Samoans,
Organ,
Altered Images,
Inner City,
Matthew Halsall,
Mr. Review,
Alphaville,
the Germs,
Skarface,
Yusef Lateef,
Bobby Sherman,
Bill Wells,
Pylon,
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