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 Burkina and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Portland.
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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
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 Nirvana to the jazz 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 Suburban Knight. All the underground hits.
All Eurythmics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kas Product record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 rhodes and an oboe 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 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lalo Schifrin,
48th St. Collective,
Spandau Ballet,
Yellowson,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Sarah Menescal,
Bill Near,
Cymande,
Stereo Dub,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
E-Dancer,
Qualms,
Magma,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
CMW,
Liliput,
OOIOO,
Babytalk,
Eurythmics,
Deadbeat,
Brass Construction,
Niagra,
Schoolly D,
The Black Dice,
Derrick Morgan,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Stooges,
The Star Department,
Swans,
The Kinks,
Hoover,
Charles Mingus,
Henry Cow,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
LL Cool J,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Bluetip,
Eyeless In Gaza,
John Lydon,
Albert Ayler,
The Raincoats,
EPMD,
Marmalade,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Gap Band,
Chris Corsano,
Das Ding,
Banda Bassotti,
Black Bananas,
Peter & Gordon,
Matthew Bourne,
The Cure,
The Martian,
Connie Case,
Bronski Beat,
Average White Band,
Kool Moe Dee,
Amon Düül,
ABBA,
Pierre Henry,
The American Breed,
Curtis Mayfield, Curtis Mayfield, Curtis Mayfield, Curtis Mayfield.
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.