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 Bosnia Herzegovina and from Bremen.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Lakeside to the rap 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 Amon Düül. All the underground hits.
All Lou Reed & Metallica tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Flash Fearless record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dual Sessions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Section 25,
Don Cherry,
Gang Green,
Bad Manners,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Bobby Sherman,
The Real Kids,
The Pop Group,
The Star Department,
Scion,
Hasil Adkins,
Camberwell Now,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Danielle Patucci,
Skriet,
Harmonia,
Gregory Isaacs,
Morten Harket,
Kayak,
Fatback Band,
ABBA,
The Skatalites,
Steve Hackett,
Silicon Teens,
Adolescents,
Kerri Chandler,
Eric Dolphy,
Soft Machine,
The Evens,
Mars,
The Slits,
Deadbeat,
Icehouse,
Sam Rivers,
Todd Rundgren,
Althea and Donna,
Lindisfarne,
the Germs,
The United States of America,
Funky Four + One,
Soul Sonic Force,
Gang Starr,
Marcia Griffiths,
Grandmaster Flash,
The American Breed,
Ronnie Foster,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Rufus Thomas,
Funkadelic,
Panda Bear,
Suicide,
David Axelrod,
Matthew Halsall,
Lalo Schifrin,
Ultimate Spinach,
KRS-One,
Magma,
Radiopuhelimet,
Index,
Von Mondo,
Aaron Thompson, Aaron Thompson, Aaron Thompson, Aaron Thompson.
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.