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 Solomon Islands and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 Paris and Columbus.
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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu 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 Bootsy Collins. All the underground hits.
All Eric B and Rakim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Standells 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a clarinet 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 organ and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Agitation Free,
Sugar Minott,
Model 500,
Erasure,
Can,
Bootsy Collins,
Niagra,
Adolescents,
Slick Rick,
Gang Gang Dance,
Bobby Sherman,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Godley & Creme,
Negative Approach,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Steve Hackett,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Altered Images,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Subhumans,
Nico,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Wally Richardson,
The Saints,
This Heat,
Blossom Toes,
Angry Samoans,
Girls At Our Best!,
Lebanon Hanover,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Matthew Bourne,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Intrusion,
Gong,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
China Crisis,
The Real Kids,
Scientists,
Jerry's Kids,
Pharoah Sanders,
Peter & Gordon,
Gang Green,
Suburban Knight,
Ronnie Foster,
Althea and Donna,
Television Personalities,
The Divine Comedy,
Joyce Sims,
Au Pairs,
Dorothy Ashby,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Leaves,
Delon & Dalcan,
Japan,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Archie Shepp,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Maleditus Sound,
Crime,
Saccharine Trust,
Sparks,
Graham Central Station,
Marmalade, Marmalade, Marmalade, Marmalade.
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.