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 Japan and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the guitar 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 Soul II Soul to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Eddi Front. All the underground hits.
All David McCallum tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Q and Not U record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 chamberlin and a güiro 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 sitar and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Essential Logic,
Motorama,
Flamin' Groovies,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Trumans Water,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Faust,
B.T. Express,
Connie Case,
Skaos,
Derrick May,
Rapeman,
Public Image Ltd.,
Joyce Sims,
Prince Buster,
Saccharine Trust,
One Last Wish,
Mr. Review,
Leonard Cohen,
The Searchers,
Sound Behaviour,
Pharoah Sanders,
Nils Olav,
Massinfluence,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Nirvana,
Joey Negro,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
a-ha,
MDC,
Tubeway Army,
F. McDonald,
New Order,
Kenny Larkin,
Piero Umiliani,
Boogie Down Productions,
Max Romeo,
Rakim,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Drexciya,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Slackers,
Quadrant,
Reuben Wilson,
R.M.O.,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Nation of Ulysses,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Carl Craig,
Suburban Knight,
Eric B and Rakim,
New York Dolls,
the Association,
Agitation Free,
Sandy B,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Yaz,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.