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 Cambodia and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Zapp to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 The Invisible. All the underground hits.
All Byron Stingily tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Donny Hathaway record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a harpsichord 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 spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Saccharine Trust,
The Techniques,
The Invisible,
Anakelly,
Panda Bear,
Thee Headcoats,
Make Up,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Thompson Twins,
10cc,
Vladislav Delay,
A Certain Ratio,
CMW,
Hashim,
Nils Olav,
The Dead C,
Freddie Wadling,
Dennis Brown,
Lindisfarne,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
T.S.O.L.,
The Beau Brummels,
The Pop Group,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Blues Magoos,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Count Five,
The Names,
Robert Görl,
KRS-One,
The Monks,
Sandy B,
The Walker Brothers,
Colin Newman,
X-101,
Scan 7,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Slackers,
JFA,
Aaron Thompson,
These Immortal Souls,
Wasted Youth,
kango's stein massive,
Interpol,
Smog,
Harmonia,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
cv313,
Bobby Womack,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Fluxion,
Silicon Teens,
Severed Heads,
Dead Boys,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Bluetip,
The Mummies,
Amon Düül,
The Skatalites,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Subhumans, Subhumans, Subhumans, Subhumans.
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.