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 Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson 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 Red Lorry Yellow Lorry. All the underground hits.
All Terrestrial Tones tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nas record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an oboe 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 an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
La Düsseldorf,
the Normal,
Scion,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Ten City,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Music Machine,
Barclay James Harvest,
cv313,
Black Flag,
Adolescents,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Flipper,
Tubeway Army,
Cameo,
Quadrant,
Drive Like Jehu,
Youth Brigade,
Circle Jerks,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Ken Boothe,
Todd Rundgren,
Yellowson,
World's Most,
Gabor Szabo,
Ultravox,
Bang On A Can,
The Remains,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Aural Exciters,
Terry Callier,
Mission of Burma,
Lalann,
The Kinks,
L. Decosne,
DJ Style,
Eddi Front,
Hashim,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Flamin' Groovies,
Kenny Larkin,
Joe Smooth,
The Associates,
This Heat,
Lee Hazlewood,
Magma,
Pantytec,
JFA,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Roger Hodgson,
The Young Rascals,
EPMD,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The United States of America,
Tommy Roe,
Danielle Patucci,
Matthew Bourne,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Sound,
Interpol,
Erasure,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Roy Ayers, Roy Ayers, Roy Ayers, Roy Ayers.
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.