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 London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
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 Tom Boy to the rap 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 MDC. All the underground hits.
All Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kerri Chandler record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 chamberlin and an arpeggiator 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 rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
These Immortal Souls,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Fatback Band,
The New Christs,
Peter and Kerry,
Altered Images,
Morten Harket,
Whodini,
Urselle,
Aloha Tigers,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Blake Baxter,
Swans,
Dead Boys,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Rosa Yemen,
Bronski Beat,
Ronan,
David Bowie,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Sonics,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Young Rascals,
Masters at Work,
Nation of Ulysses,
Unwound,
Vladislav Delay,
Jimmy McGriff,
Bizarre Inc.,
Roy Ayers,
The Seeds,
The Moody Blues,
Theoretical Girls,
Marshall Jefferson,
Robert Wyatt,
Liliput,
Reagan Youth,
Japan,
The Alarm Clocks,
Judy Mowatt,
Carl Craig,
Delon & Dalcan,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Von Mondo,
Leonard Cohen,
Lou Reed,
New Order,
The Busters,
The Angels of Light,
Tropical Tobacco,
Deadbeat,
The Black Dice,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Sandy B,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Avey Tare,
Donny Hathaway,
Tres Demented,
The Count Five,
Guru Guru,
Unrelated Segments,
DNA,
Neu!,
Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band.
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.