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 Afghanistan and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Roxette to the rock 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 Donny Hathaway. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum 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 güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Cramps,
Patti Smith,
PIL,
Easy Going,
Theoretical Girls,
Rekid,
DJ Style,
Sight & Sound,
Joy Division,
The Knickerbockers,
The Barracudas,
Michelle Simonal,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Tres Demented,
Ten City,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Sun Ra,
Magazine,
Peter & Gordon,
Barclay James Harvest,
Ultravox,
The United States of America,
Scientists,
David McCallum,
Siglo XX,
The Pop Group,
Hot Snakes,
Fad Gadget,
Sugar Minott,
Nick Fraelich,
Fatback Band,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Evens,
Eli Mardock,
Donny Hathaway,
Gang of Four,
Country Joe & The Fish,
John Holt,
Von Mondo,
The Dave Clark Five,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
A Certain Ratio,
Erasure,
Brand Nubian,
Joe Finger,
The Cowsills,
Gang Green,
The Residents,
Parry Music,
Boz Scaggs,
Scratch Acid,
James White and The Blacks,
Youth Brigade,
Soulsonic Force,
Dawn Penn,
Section 25,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Kool Moe Dee,
Derrick May,
Albert Ayler,
Reagan Youth,
Flipper, Flipper, Flipper, Flipper.
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.