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 Afghanistan and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 mellotron 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 The Mighty Diamonds to the grime 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 Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme. All the underground hits.
All Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kaleidoscope 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a theremin 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 a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Black Pus,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Dawn Penn,
Jawbox,
Kaleidoscope,
The Barracudas,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Associates,
Wasted Youth,
Robert Hood,
Brand Nubian,
June Days,
Parry Music,
Scan 7,
Stockholm Monsters,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Minnie Riperton,
Funky Four + One,
Junior Murvin,
Dead Boys,
Swans,
The Knickerbockers,
The Cramps,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Max Romeo,
Magazine,
In Retrospect,
Lakeside,
Deakin,
Outsiders,
These Immortal Souls,
Jandek,
Faust,
Ten City,
The New Christs,
Tomorrow,
Archie Shepp,
The Raincoats,
Youth Brigade,
Half Japanese,
Eli Mardock,
The Fall,
Neil Young,
Mr. Review,
The Grass Roots,
Vladislav Delay,
Marvin Gaye,
The Zeros,
Von Mondo,
Ronan,
The Gap Band,
Ultimate Spinach,
Section 25,
CMW,
Iggy Pop,
The Residents,
Sparks,
Index,
Nico,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Arthur Verocai, Arthur Verocai, Arthur Verocai, Arthur Verocai.
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.