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 South Africa and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 8 Eyed Spy. All the underground hits.
All The Velvet Underground tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Underground Resistance record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 a clarinet and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soul Sonic Force record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sister Nancy,
DJ Sneak,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Altered Images,
AZ,
Juan Atkins,
the Human League,
Infiniti,
KRS-One,
Albert Ayler,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Outsiders,
Parry Music,
Monks,
Depeche Mode,
Joyce Sims,
Intrusion,
The Searchers,
The Golliwogs,
Quadrant,
Country Teasers,
Moss Icon,
Peter & Gordon,
Cecil Taylor,
Brass Construction,
Sarah Menescal,
La Düsseldorf,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Thompson Twins,
Massinfluence,
Derrick Morgan,
Gerry Rafferty,
Lalann,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Quando Quango,
Panda Bear,
Pere Ubu,
Deakin,
B.T. Express,
Suburban Knight,
Minny Pops,
Television,
Barbara Tucker,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Tropical Tobacco,
Basic Channel,
Soft Cell,
Aural Exciters,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Sparks,
Pole,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Techniques,
Organ,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Alphaville,
The Smiths,
Dave Gahan,
Pylon,
Slave,
Accadde A,
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