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 Solomon Islands and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Copenhagen.
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 guitar 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 10cc to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Country Teasers. All the underground hits.
All Colin Newman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Talk Talk record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ronnie Foster,
The Sonics,
Skaos,
The Stooges,
Rufus Thomas,
Main Source,
John Lydon,
Rod Modell,
Johnny Osbourne,
Mission of Burma,
Hasil Adkins,
Sight & Sound,
Brothers Johnson,
T. Rex,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Ice-T,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Archie Shepp,
The New Christs,
The Associates,
The Motions,
Silicon Teens,
Hardrive,
Sun City Girls,
Thompson Twins,
Bill Wells,
Black Sheep,
Tim Buckley,
Todd Terry,
Dorothy Ashby,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Rosa Yemen,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
10cc,
Yazoo,
Television Personalities,
Eli Mardock,
Graham Central Station,
Camberwell Now,
Popol Vuh,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Lucky Dragons,
Leonard Cohen,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Negative Approach,
The Vogues,
Aswad,
Pylon,
Barclay James Harvest,
Eden Ahbez,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Monks,
The Move,
the Sonics,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Minor Threat,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
L. Decosne,
Joey Negro,
Juan Atkins,
Ultravox, Ultravox, Ultravox, Ultravox.
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.