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 Bolivia and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Ronan to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Toni Rubio. All the underground hits.
All Minutemen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Jesus and Mary Chain 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
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 Cymande record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pierre Henry,
Q65,
Swell Maps,
La Düsseldorf,
The Moody Blues,
Rites of Spring,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Sister Nancy,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Gastr Del Sol,
Essential Logic,
The Grass Roots,
Kerri Chandler,
John Coltrane,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Lightning Bolt,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Wings,
Bronski Beat,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Spoonie Gee,
Peter & Gordon,
Ornette Coleman,
Roy Ayers,
Flamin' Groovies,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Brick,
10cc,
Mo-Dettes,
Silicon Teens,
Vladislav Delay,
Fort Wilson Riot,
ABC,
The Velvet Underground,
Derrick Morgan,
Bauhaus,
Parry Music,
June of 44,
Niagra,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Icehouse,
The Alarm Clocks,
The American Breed,
The Knickerbockers,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Bobby Sherman,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Index,
Gabor Szabo,
Popol Vuh,
Susan Cadogan,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Nik Kershaw,
Index,
Dark Day,
The Seeds,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Sugar Minott,
In Retrospect,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
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