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 Angola and from New York.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 theremin 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 Massinfluence to the rap 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 Scrapy. All the underground hits.
All Nico tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Thee Headcoats record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a sitar 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 linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Gories,
Danielle Patucci,
Scan 7,
The Evens,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Hot Snakes,
Alice Coltrane,
Tubeway Army,
The Slackers,
Ohio Players,
Eli Mardock,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Leonard Cohen,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Minutemen,
Bootsy Collins,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Zapp,
Tom Boy,
Derrick May,
Sparks,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Marmalade,
Mark Hollis,
Radiohead,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Skaos,
Jandek,
Ponytail,
Amazonics,
The Associates,
Barbara Tucker,
Crime,
Television,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Donald Byrd,
Technova,
Bang On A Can,
Unrelated Segments,
the Fania All-Stars,
Rufus Thomas,
Erasure,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Index,
Dave Gahan,
Tommy Roe,
Surgeon,
Chrome,
Rhythm & Sound,
Gang Starr,
Marshall Jefferson,
Blake Baxter,
Bill Near,
New Order,
The Moody Blues,
X-102,
Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd..
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.