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 Costa Rica and from Seoul.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the snare 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 Monks to the dance kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Circle Jerks. All the underground hits.
All Sight & Sound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bluetip record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an organ 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 808 and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Masters at Work,
Warsaw,
The Fortunes,
Matthew Halsall,
Bronski Beat,
Todd Terry,
The Human League,
Colin Newman,
Jeff Lynne,
Nick Fraelich,
Rites of Spring,
John Cale,
The Neon Judgement,
The Saints,
Boogie Down Productions,
Inner City,
Kurtis Blow,
The Doors,
Television Personalities,
Maleditus Sound,
Make Up,
Danielle Patucci,
Amon Düül,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Misunderstood,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Drexciya,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Jeru the Damaja,
Howard Jones,
Au Pairs,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Brick,
Marmalade,
Sällskapet,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Real Kids,
Interpol,
Pantaleimon,
David McCallum,
The Grass Roots,
Moby Grape,
Tim Buckley,
Chris & Cosey,
Lindisfarne,
Joe Finger,
Tropical Tobacco,
the Bar-Kays,
Eric Dolphy,
Gabor Szabo,
Ultravox,
The Wake,
Vladislav Delay,
Laurel Aitken,
Q65,
Barbara Tucker,
Deakin,
Zero Boys,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Move, The Move, The Move, The Move.
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.