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 Comoros and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Joe Smooth to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Smog. All the underground hits.
All Scratch Acid tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Radiohead record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The J.B.'s record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
kango's stein massive,
Absolute Body Control,
Ten City,
Schoolly D,
KRS-One,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Accadde A,
Judy Mowatt,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Country Teasers,
Jacob Miller,
Moss Icon,
Pharoah Sanders,
Guru Guru,
China Crisis,
Moby Grape,
Gichy Dan,
Joe Smooth,
Mandrill,
Glenn Branca,
OOIOO,
Bad Manners,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Oblivians,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Ronnie Foster,
Bluetip,
Sixth Finger,
Public Enemy,
The Slackers,
Eric Dolphy,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Bootsy Collins,
Janne Schatter,
Brass Construction,
Brick,
The Fortunes,
The Dead C,
Electric Light Orchestra,
John Cale,
Alison Limerick,
Alice Coltrane,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Crash Course in Science,
Reagan Youth,
Sparks,
The Sonics,
Danielle Patucci,
Livin' Joy,
Joy Division,
Ohio Players,
Dennis Brown,
Zapp,
Barclay James Harvest,
the Bar-Kays,
Leonard Cohen,
Surgeon,
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