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 Maldives and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Simply Red to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Mo-Dettes. All the underground hits.
All Guru Guru tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Magazine record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a David Axelrod record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Urselle,
LL Cool J,
Neu!,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Japan,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Amon Düül II,
Gil Scott Heron,
Motorama,
Minor Threat,
Stockholm Monsters,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Moody Blues,
Al Stewart,
T.S.O.L.,
Sällskapet,
Robert Wyatt,
The Remains,
D'Angelo,
Gang of Four,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Dead Boys,
Tubeway Army,
Crime,
Sexual Harrassment,
Camouflage,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Eden Ahbez,
June of 44,
Warren Ellis,
Bobby Hutcherson,
OOIOO,
Marmalade,
X-101,
Magma,
Neil Young,
Roger Hodgson,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Kayak,
The Gories,
The Last Poets,
The Smiths,
Agitation Free,
Patti Smith,
Blossom Toes,
Dawn Penn,
Radiopuhelimet,
Freddie Wadling,
Young Marble Giants,
Ultra Naté,
Barbara Tucker,
Lalo Schifrin,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Fela Kuti,
The Cowsills,
Skriet,
Ossler,
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