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 Uruguay and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud to the crunk 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 Eric B and Rakim. All the underground hits.
All Sparks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cabaret Voltaire record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 synthesizer 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 harpsichord and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Q and Not U,
Sound Behaviour,
JFA,
Sun City Girls,
Anakelly,
Adolescents,
Buzzcocks,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Grandmaster Flash,
AZ,
The Five Americans,
The Techniques,
The Golliwogs,
Hashim,
Yazoo,
Todd Rundgren,
Harpers Bizarre,
Junior Murvin,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Barrington Levy,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Althea and Donna,
Darondo,
Curtis Mayfield,
Minnie Riperton,
kango's stein massive,
DJ Style,
Tommy Roe,
The Cowsills,
Organ,
The Fall,
The Gories,
Eli Mardock,
Basic Channel,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Lalann,
Chris Corsano,
Rhythm & Sound,
Eden Ahbez,
Los Fastidios,
Gichy Dan,
The Music Machine,
Deakin,
the Human League,
Nik Kershaw,
Blake Baxter,
Moby Grape,
Rod Modell,
Popol Vuh,
Maurizio,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Pierre Henry,
Pagans,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Brothers Johnson,
EPMD,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Liliput, Liliput, Liliput, Liliput.
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.