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 New Zealand and from Halifax.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the oboe 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 Shoche to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Todd Rundgren. All the underground hits.
All Peter and Kerry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Martian record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a sitar 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 oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Schoolly D,
The Golliwogs,
Crispy Ambulance,
Los Fastidios,
Severed Heads,
Thee Headcoats,
Bronski Beat,
Magma,
The Vogues,
Joe Finger,
Robert Görl,
Piero Umiliani,
The Dirtbombs,
Fugazi,
Warsaw,
X-102,
Sight & Sound,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Zeros,
Sarah Menescal,
a-ha,
Cheater Slicks,
The Velvet Underground,
Subhumans,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Todd Terry,
The Stooges,
The Doors,
Harpers Bizarre,
Rosa Yemen,
the Soft Cell,
Max Romeo,
Oneida,
Connie Case,
Ice-T,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Fela Kuti,
Procol Harum,
Jeff Mills,
Bush Tetras,
David Bowie,
Second Layer,
Althea and Donna,
Lakeside,
Wings,
Shuggie Otis,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Kayak,
Lucky Dragons,
China Crisis,
Mo-Dettes,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Porter Ricks,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Public Image Ltd.,
Pantaleimon,
Aloha Tigers,
Massinfluence,
John Foxx,
Adolescents,
48th St. Collective,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.