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 Korea North and from Cairo.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 marimba 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 Cymande to the grime kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Thompson Twins. All the underground hits.
All Thompson Twins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Normal 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 linndrum and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Smog record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Flamin' Groovies,
Peter & Gordon,
Faust,
Yellowson,
Gerry Rafferty,
Parry Music,
John Foxx,
Lebanon Hanover,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Quando Quango,
Connie Case,
Von Mondo,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Suicide,
The J.B.'s,
the Association,
Little Man,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Neon Judgement,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Pet Shop Boys,
Nico,
Hoover,
X-102,
Sarah Menescal,
The Index,
Symarip,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Martian,
Andrew Hill,
The Wake,
The Golliwogs,
Vainqueur,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Excepter,
Roger Hodgson,
Stockholm Monsters,
Marshall Jefferson,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Monochrome Set,
The Five Americans,
The Dirtbombs,
Iggy Pop,
Harry Pussy,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Detroit Cobras,
Johnny Clarke,
Public Image Ltd.,
Kool Moe Dee,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Swell Maps,
The Pretty Things,
Quantec,
Robert Hood,
Underground Resistance,
The Smoke,
Cecil Taylor,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience.
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.