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 Malaysia and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the rhodes 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 CMW to the dance kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Guru Guru. All the underground hits.
All The Cure tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Youth Brigade record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 an oboe 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 rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Monks,
Tommy Roe,
Amon Düül,
Metal Thangz,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Seeds,
The Detroit Cobras,
Maurizio,
The Selecter,
Babytalk,
Letta Mbulu,
Shoche,
Bootsy Collins,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Raincoats,
Peter and Kerry,
FM Einheit,
Darondo,
Mandrill,
The Invisible,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Electric Prunes,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Buzzcocks,
Eve St. Jones,
Minutemen,
Ultimate Spinach,
Nico,
Flamin' Groovies,
Dead Boys,
Main Source,
Alton Ellis,
Godley & Creme,
X-101,
Can,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Cameo,
Brick,
Severed Heads,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Gregory Isaacs,
Thompson Twins,
Visage,
Joe Smooth,
Young Marble Giants,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Fall,
Quantec,
Sällskapet,
Maleditus Sound,
Yaz,
Amon Düül II,
Byron Stingily,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Q65,
Outsiders,
Marmalade,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Livin' Joy,
Little Man,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Lightning Bolt,
Harpers Bizarre, Harpers Bizarre, Harpers Bizarre, Harpers Bizarre.
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.