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 Cameroon and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the güiro 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 Intrusion to the punk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam. All the underground hits.
All Art Ensemble Of Chicago tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eric Dolphy 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Mighty Diamonds record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Liliput,
Y Pants,
Half Japanese,
Buzzcocks,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Shuggie Otis,
The Shadows of Knight,
Peter and Kerry,
The Blues Magoos,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
10cc,
Aural Exciters,
Eric B and Rakim,
Funky Four + One,
Judy Mowatt,
Traffic Nightmare,
JFA,
Soul Sonic Force,
Grandmaster Flash,
Crime,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Sarah Menescal,
Joe Finger,
X-101,
Janne Schatter,
Parry Music,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Mars,
Erasure,
Deakin,
Maurizio,
The Associates,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Soft Cell,
Vainqueur,
Monolake,
Arthur Verocai,
Scion,
Aaron Thompson,
Radiohead,
Visage,
The Grass Roots,
The Gories,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Hashim,
Eli Mardock,
Newcleus,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Joy Division,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Unrelated Segments,
Black Bananas,
Massinfluence,
Brass Construction,
OOIOO,
The Raincoats,
AZ,
Joyce Sims,
Gabor Szabo,
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