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 Oman and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Alphaville to the grime 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 Sun Ra Arkestra. All the underground hits.
All The Angels of Light tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Quantec record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Panda Bear,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Arthur Verocai,
Maurizio,
Sixth Finger,
Absolute Body Control,
Bluetip,
Gil Scott Heron,
Matthew Bourne,
Connie Case,
Black Flag,
Accadde A,
The Gories,
Marcia Griffiths,
Banda Bassotti,
Trumans Water,
FM Einheit,
Television Personalities,
Ultra Naté,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Organ,
Silicon Teens,
The New Christs,
Sonic Youth,
Pharoah Sanders,
Darondo,
Toni Rubio,
Glenn Branca,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Nation of Ulysses,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Crispian St. Peters,
Morten Harket,
Glambeats Corp.,
Unrelated Segments,
Aswad,
Radio Birdman,
Leonard Cohen,
Outsiders,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Bronski Beat,
Laurel Aitken,
The Kinks,
Cybotron,
Alton Ellis,
Crash Course in Science,
Jacques Brel,
The Human League,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Monolake,
Gichy Dan,
Goldenarms,
The Modern Lovers,
Funkadelic,
UT,
Los Fastidios,
Black Sheep,
X-102, X-102, X-102, X-102.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.