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 Ecuador and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Radiopuhelimet to the disco 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 The Doors. All the underground hits.
All the Human League tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Dead C 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Easy Going,
The Skatalites,
Donald Byrd,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Gang Green,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Yellowson,
Youth Brigade,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Faust,
Arthur Verocai,
U.S. Maple,
Moebius,
Eli Mardock,
Deadbeat,
The Count Five,
Spandau Ballet,
L. Decosne,
The Music Machine,
The Angels of Light,
Joyce Sims,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Camberwell Now,
Young Marble Giants,
Cal Tjader,
Y Pants,
Jawbox,
Marc Almond,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Glenn Branca,
Television,
Donny Hathaway,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Wings,
Heaven 17,
Circle Jerks,
Sällskapet,
John Coltrane,
48th St. Collective,
Rotary Connection,
Chrome,
Roxy Music,
Cameo,
The Wake,
Howard Jones,
Scan 7,
Country Teasers,
Toni Rubio,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Electric Prunes,
John Foxx,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Chris & Cosey,
Reuben Wilson,
The American Breed,
Bluetip,
Jerry's Kids,
Electric Prunes,
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