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 Greece and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Technova to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 MDC. All the underground hits.
All Sam Rivers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tomorrow record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ossler record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tim Buckley,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Animal Collective,
Icehouse,
Ituana,
Fear,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Gong,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Donny Hathaway,
Camouflage,
Lou Christie,
Skarface,
Stereo Dub,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Moebius,
Reagan Youth,
Unrelated Segments,
Roxette,
The Blues Magoos,
Marshall Jefferson,
Robert Hood,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Bobby Byrd,
Inner City,
the Human League,
Eurythmics,
Scan 7,
The Last Poets,
Alice Coltrane,
Sight & Sound,
Slick Rick,
Boz Scaggs,
Youth Brigade,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Star Department,
Hoover,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Sun City Girls,
Black Pus,
This Heat,
The Evens,
Duran Duran,
Maleditus Sound,
The Electric Prunes,
The Angels of Light,
Kurtis Blow,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
F. McDonald,
The Trojans,
The Gories,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Bush Tetras,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
James White and The Blacks,
The Smoke,
Scrapy,
Das Ding,
The Litter,
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