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 Benin and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle show in London.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Pylon to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Rekid. All the underground hits.
All Fatback Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Sisters of Mercy 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marcia Griffiths record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mandrill,
Minny Pops,
Reuben Wilson,
Peter and Kerry,
Ohio Players,
Funky Four + One,
Skaos,
Electric Prunes,
Marvin Gaye,
Lower 48,
Bobby Byrd,
Tom Boy,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Anthony Braxton,
Agitation Free,
The J.B.'s,
Vladislav Delay,
Joyce Sims,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Sandy B,
Quantec,
Laurel Aitken,
The Barracudas,
UT,
Eden Ahbez,
Kurtis Blow,
Janne Schatter,
Eli Mardock,
Panda Bear,
Brothers Johnson,
The Victims,
Minor Threat,
Brick,
Lalann,
Urselle,
Girls At Our Best!,
Main Source,
Crispy Ambulance,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Toasters,
H. Thieme,
Erasure,
Black Sheep,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
U.S. Maple,
Archie Shepp,
In Retrospect,
K-Klass,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Durutti Column,
Faust,
Pharoah Sanders,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Infiniti,
Eric B and Rakim,
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