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 Slovenia and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the sitar 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 Adolescents to the rock kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 The Grass Roots. All the underground hits.
All Lalo Schifrin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Spoonie Gee record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 clarinet and a guitar 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 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Martian,
Flamin' Groovies,
Donny Hathaway,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Happenings,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
New Age Steppers,
Rosa Yemen,
The Smoke,
DJ Sneak,
Crime,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Inner City,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Public Enemy,
The New Christs,
Supertramp,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Tres Demented,
The Buckinghams,
The Divine Comedy,
Second Layer,
Rakim,
Circle Jerks,
Quantec,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Associates,
ABC,
Clear Light,
The Fall,
Morten Harket,
Chrome,
Massinfluence,
Ludus,
MDC,
Thee Headcoats,
Rekid,
Hoover,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Pagans,
Dead Boys,
UT,
Quando Quango,
Warsaw,
Tears for Fears,
Motorama,
Yazoo,
Delon & Dalcan,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Scion,
Sound Behaviour,
Derrick Morgan,
Young Marble Giants,
Sex Pistols,
Sällskapet,
Darondo,
kango's stein massive,
Matthew Bourne,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Soulsonic Force,
New York Dolls,
T.S.O.L.,
The Index,
Outsiders, Outsiders, Outsiders, Outsiders.
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.