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 Greece and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Chrome to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Tomorrow. All the underground hits.
All John Foxx tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tim Buckley record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 chamberlin and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Erasure record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Shoche,
Janne Schatter,
The Cowsills,
Pierre Henry,
The Busters,
Sex Pistols,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Peter and Kerry,
Andrew Hill,
Scientists,
Au Pairs,
Lou Christie,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Parry Music,
The Mojo Men,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Walker Brothers,
The Standells,
Animal Collective,
The Moody Blues,
Marine Girls,
Oneida,
Danielle Patucci,
Underground Resistance,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Rod Modell,
Sixth Finger,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Move,
DJ Sneak,
B.T. Express,
Country Joe & The Fish,
the Fania All-Stars,
Marvin Gaye,
Aswad,
Mantronix,
Nico,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Anthony Braxton,
48th St. Collective,
Jesper Dahlback,
Oblivians,
Nation of Ulysses,
Bobby Womack,
Pantaleimon,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Names,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Alison Limerick,
New York Dolls,
Robert Hood,
DJ Style,
Liliput,
H. Thieme,
Spandau Ballet,
Deakin,
Eve St. Jones,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Black Moon,
Cal Tjader,
Moebius, Moebius, Moebius, Moebius.
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.