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 Laos and from Stockholm.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Stiv Bators to the punk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Tubeway Army. All the underground hits.
All Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Red Krayola record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joy Division record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cal Tjader,
Barrington Levy,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Negative Approach,
Matthew Halsall,
The Sisters of Mercy,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Make Up,
Brothers Johnson,
Supertramp,
Sun City Girls,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Fortunes,
The Searchers,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Symarip,
Alison Limerick,
Amon Düül II,
Robert Hood,
Harmonia,
Fat Boys,
Althea and Donna,
Reuben Wilson,
Mars,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Lalann,
Bauhaus,
D'Angelo,
Sound Behaviour,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Colin Newman,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Accadde A,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Animal Collective,
Ornette Coleman,
The Offenders,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Henry Cow,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Tropical Tobacco,
Curtis Mayfield,
JFA,
Sam Rivers,
Siglo XX,
Pantaleimon,
Barclay James Harvest,
Monolake,
Can,
The Busters,
FM Einheit,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Swell Maps,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Tomorrow,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Jandek,
Swans,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.