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 Dominica and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the güiro 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 Yusef Lateef to the rock 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 Kerrie Biddell. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Major Organ And The Adding Machine record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Echo & the Bunnymen record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Clear Light,
Bobby Sherman,
Hoover,
June Days,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Eric B and Rakim,
Goldenarms,
Cecil Taylor,
Unwound,
The Techniques,
Easy Going,
Sex Pistols,
DNA,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Essential Logic,
Patti Smith,
Pere Ubu,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Alarm Clocks,
Lindisfarne,
Howard Jones,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Gories,
Supertramp,
Deepchord,
Sexual Harrassment,
Gil Scott Heron,
Jandek,
The Tremeloes,
Smog,
Nation of Ulysses,
Joyce Sims,
Accadde A,
Adolescents,
Metal Thangz,
Rekid,
Magma,
kango's stein massive,
The American Breed,
Aswad,
Blossom Toes,
The Raincoats,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Dirtbombs,
The Fire Engines,
Scan 7,
The Invisible,
Todd Rundgren,
The Cramps,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Bush Tetras,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Sound,
Angry Samoans,
Nirvana,
The Associates,
Nas,
Erasure,
Gerry Rafferty,
Yaz,
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