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 Comoros and from Tehran.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five to the electroclash 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 Piero Umiliani. All the underground hits.
All Larry & the Blue Notes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Amon Düül II 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a These Immortal Souls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soul II Soul,
Spandau Ballet,
Scion,
Average White Band,
Icehouse,
Hardrive,
Oneida,
Jandek,
Crooked Eye,
Graham Central Station,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Man Parrish,
The Dead C,
Ultravox,
Chrome,
Zapp,
Sällskapet,
Tubeway Army,
Boz Scaggs,
Silicon Teens,
The Mojo Men,
Bob Dylan,
Marmalade,
Public Image Ltd.,
Joyce Sims,
CMW,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Clear Light,
Underground Resistance,
Brand Nubian,
D'Angelo,
The Cramps,
Lakeside,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
DJ Style,
Pantytec,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Khruangbin,
Heaven 17,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Cheater Slicks,
Basic Channel,
Television Personalities,
U.S. Maple,
Kerri Chandler,
The Human League,
the Association,
Sparks,
Bill Near,
Curtis Mayfield,
Magma,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Soul Sonic Force,
Index,
Barry Ungar,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Radiohead,
Bootsy Collins,
The Wake,
Joensuu 1685,
Quadrant,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Richard Hell and the Voidoids.
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.