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 Palau and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez 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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and New York.
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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Agitation Free to the funk 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 Soul Sonic Force. All the underground hits.
All Electric Prunes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neu! 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Judy Mowatt record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
New Order,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Barry Ungar,
Scientists,
Robert Wyatt,
Jimmy McGriff,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Martian,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Rotary Connection,
The Toasters,
Throbbing Gristle,
Ultravox,
The Gladiators,
Lower 48,
Arab on Radar,
Infiniti,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Happenings,
Tim Buckley,
Loose Ends,
Harpers Bizarre,
Con Funk Shun,
Sonic Youth,
The Modern Lovers,
Brand Nubian,
Intrusion,
Erykah Badu,
Morten Harket,
The Searchers,
Funky Four + One,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
the Slits,
Siglo XX,
The Trojans,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Eric Dolphy,
Hot Snakes,
Animal Collective,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Gang Gang Dance,
Jeff Mills,
E-Dancer,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Essential Logic,
Altered Images,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Make Up,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Qualms,
Audionom,
Blossom Toes,
The Dave Clark Five,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
John Coltrane,
Ronnie Foster,
Faraquet,
The Alarm Clocks,
Josef K,
Amon Düül,
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