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 India and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 U.S. Maple to the punk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Con Funk Shun. All the underground hits.
All Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Henry Cow record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a De La Soul & Jungle Brothers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Stockholm Monsters,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Theoretical Girls,
Todd Rundgren,
The Dead C,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Easy Going,
Harmonia,
Negative Approach,
Minnie Riperton,
Suburban Knight,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Remains,
John Cale,
Camouflage,
Flamin' Groovies,
Blossom Toes,
Jeff Mills,
The Angels of Light,
The Trojans,
Sparks,
Grandmaster Flash,
Agent Orange,
Excepter,
Johnny Clarke,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Masters at Work,
Simply Red,
Sam Rivers,
Zero Boys,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Mojo Men,
Johnny Osbourne,
Brick,
DNA,
The Count Five,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Evens,
Fat Boys,
The Knickerbockers,
the Bar-Kays,
Kerri Chandler,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Surgeon,
Supertramp,
the Swans,
Chris & Cosey,
The Kinks,
FM Einheit,
The Neon Judgement,
John Coltrane,
Drexciya,
Vainqueur,
Buzzcocks,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Mandrill,
Pussy Galore,
Barrington Levy,
Lebanon Hanover,
Iggy Pop,
DJ Sneak,
Grauzone,
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