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 Maldives and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 Woodstock and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 MC5 to the funk 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 Motorama. All the underground hits.
All Jesper Dahlbäck tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Blancmange 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 linndrum and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Technova record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Boz Scaggs,
In Retrospect,
Technova,
Stetsasonic,
Ohio Players,
Ronnie Foster,
Eddi Front,
Eric Dolphy,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Youth Brigade,
Rod Modell,
Tubeway Army,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Nik Kershaw,
Bobby Womack,
Gang of Four,
Rufus Thomas,
Banda Bassotti,
The Barracudas,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Wasted Youth,
Slick Rick,
Fela Kuti,
The Young Rascals,
the Fania All-Stars,
These Immortal Souls,
The Evens,
Lou Reed,
The Knickerbockers,
Mantronix,
Quando Quango,
Albert Ayler,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Dorothy Ashby,
Nirvana,
The Fugs,
Eve St. Jones,
The United States of America,
The Human League,
Isaac Hayes,
Marc Almond,
Eyeless In Gaza,
JFA,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Aural Exciters,
Tom Boy,
The Pretty Things,
The Invisible,
Charles Mingus,
Franke,
Bob Dylan,
June of 44,
Ossler,
Yazoo,
June Days,
China Crisis,
New Age Steppers,
The Five Americans,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Porter Ricks,
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