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 Tuvalu and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Bronski Beat show in Brixton.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Robert Görl to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Thinking Fellers Union Local 282. All the underground hits.
All The Busters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Louis and Bebe Barron 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a synthesizer 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 oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Das Ding,
Echospace,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Siglo XX,
Anakelly,
Gabor Szabo,
Chris Corsano,
The Fuzztones,
D'Angelo,
Danielle Patucci,
Sixth Finger,
James White and The Blacks,
John Cale,
Quadrant,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Vladislav Delay,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Faraquet,
Rapeman,
Anthony Braxton,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Shoche,
Spoonie Gee,
Altered Images,
The Human League,
Cybotron,
Iggy Pop,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Warren Ellis,
The Dave Clark Five,
Public Image Ltd.,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Joyce Sims,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Litter,
Circle Jerks,
Simply Red,
Tommy Roe,
Soulsonic Force,
Japan,
Fatback Band,
Arab on Radar,
Swans,
Magazine,
The Flesh Eaters,
Barbara Tucker,
Mantronix,
Eric Copeland,
Letta Mbulu,
the Human League,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Eurythmics,
The Move,
Peter & Gordon,
Trumans Water,
Swell Maps,
The Monochrome Set,
Section 25,
Lou Christie,
Ornette Coleman,
This Heat, This Heat, This Heat, This Heat.
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.