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 Sudan and from Milan.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the sitar 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 Robert Görl to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Danielle Patucci. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Monochrome Set record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 an oboe 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 harpsichord and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Fugazi,
Rekid,
Los Fastidios,
Roxy Music,
kango's stein massive,
Lungfish,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Ituana,
Black Flag,
The Busters,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Victims,
The Zeros,
Interpol,
Ossler,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Monks,
Aaron Thompson,
X-102,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Lou Christie,
Masters at Work,
Marmalade,
Rapeman,
The Techniques,
Marshall Jefferson,
James White and The Blacks,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Matthew Halsall,
Easy Going,
Josef K,
Cheater Slicks,
Pantytec,
The Raincoats,
Pole,
Radio Birdman,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Slackers,
Sex Pistols,
The Grass Roots,
Ronnie Foster,
Howard Jones,
Tubeway Army,
Spoonie Gee,
Hashim,
Animal Collective,
the Slits,
Eli Mardock,
Excepter,
The Misunderstood,
The Kinks,
Minor Threat,
Saccharine Trust,
Cymande,
Isaac Hayes,
Suburban Knight,
The Vogues,
Scientists,
Funky Four + One,
Popol Vuh,
R.M.O.,
The United States of America, The United States of America, The United States of America, The United States of America.
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.