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 Brazil and from Taipei.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Boredoms to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Iggy Pop. All the underground hits.
All The Five Americans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gong 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a mellotron 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 clarinet and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ornette Coleman,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Echospace,
The Fire Engines,
Isaac Hayes,
June Days,
The Dave Clark Five,
Kas Product,
Danielle Patucci,
Prince Buster,
The Selecter,
Eli Mardock,
Eddi Front,
Dennis Brown,
Ituana,
The Blues Magoos,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Gichy Dan,
Hoover,
Eric Copeland,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Darondo,
The Pretty Things,
Reagan Youth,
Babytalk,
Barclay James Harvest,
Royal Trux,
Buzzcocks,
Radiohead,
Technova,
Bobby Sherman,
Cheater Slicks,
Harpers Bizarre,
Robert Hood,
OOIOO,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Knickerbockers,
Barry Ungar,
Cameo,
Sugar Minott,
Mo-Dettes,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Moby Grape,
Make Up,
Soft Machine,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Saints,
Johnny Clarke,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Sound Behaviour,
Pagans,
Howard Jones,
Pantytec,
Reuben Wilson,
Joe Smooth,
Aswad,
Wasted Youth,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Smog,
Marvin Gaye,
the Human League, the Human League, the Human League, the Human League.
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.