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 Guinea and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Ken Boothe to the punk 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 Swell Maps. All the underground hits.
All AZ tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bill Wells record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 a 808 and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marine Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Depeche Mode,
Nils Olav,
Monolake,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Dave Clark Five,
Mary Jane Girls,
Supertramp,
The Invisible,
The Gap Band,
Kurtis Blow,
Harry Pussy,
Joey Negro,
The Alarm Clocks,
Scott Walker,
The Fugs,
Parry Music,
La Düsseldorf,
The Doobie Brothers,
Guru Guru,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Accadde A,
Jesper Dahlback,
Oneida,
Albert Ayler,
Isaac Hayes,
Joy Division,
Rekid,
Fat Boys,
Mad Mike,
Todd Rundgren,
DNA,
Banda Bassotti,
Dual Sessions,
CMW,
Agitation Free,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Althea and Donna,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Raincoats,
Janne Schatter,
Cameo,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Aloha Tigers,
EPMD,
The Motions,
Josef K,
Soft Cell,
Wolf Eyes,
the Bar-Kays,
Magazine,
Davy DMX,
The Techniques,
the Human League,
Bootsy Collins,
Kas Product,
Mantronix,
Icehouse,
Negative Approach,
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