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 Italy and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Soft Machine to the punk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Gang Green. All the underground hits.
All The Smoke tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Teenage Jesus and the Jerks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Association record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Make Up,
The Pretty Things,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Roxy Music,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Colin Newman,
Cybotron,
JFA,
The Modern Lovers,
Barrington Levy,
Connie Case,
Depeche Mode,
Harry Pussy,
Eli Mardock,
48th St. Collective,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Robert Wyatt,
The Dirtbombs,
Suburban Knight,
Black Pus,
The Mojo Men,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Reagan Youth,
Man Eating Sloth,
Blancmange,
Agent Orange,
Sister Nancy,
Groovy Waters,
Reuben Wilson,
Moss Icon,
The Techniques,
Scrapy,
Aural Exciters,
Nico,
Procol Harum,
Peter & Gordon,
Banda Bassotti,
Derrick May,
Bobby Womack,
Dark Day,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Altered Images,
Index,
MDC,
Funky Four + One,
Oneida,
The Fugs,
Laurel Aitken,
OOIOO,
Tropical Tobacco,
Gang of Four,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
AZ,
Royal Trux,
cv313,
Main Source,
Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc..
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