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 Angola and from Calgary.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the oboe 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 Skaos to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Donny Hathaway record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 a mellotron and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Anthony Braxton record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Masters at Work,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Busters,
Agent Orange,
The Remains,
The Fuzztones,
Duran Duran,
Mo-Dettes,
Eli Mardock,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Massinfluence,
Alphaville,
The Seeds,
Ralphi Rosario,
A Flock of Seagulls,
the Germs,
FM Einheit,
Ponytail,
Stetsasonic,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Rod Modell,
Rotary Connection,
Deadbeat,
Spoonie Gee,
Dorothy Ashby,
Q65,
The Human League,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Y Pants,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Evens,
Khruangbin,
The Mojo Men,
Mr. Review,
Soul Sonic Force,
Ten City,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Marine Girls,
Heaven 17,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Buzzcocks,
The Doobie Brothers,
Al Stewart,
Gabor Szabo,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Brass Construction,
Boredoms,
Tommy Roe,
AZ,
Eve St. Jones,
Josef K,
Nico,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Kenny Larkin,
The Blues Magoos,
Little Man,
T. Rex,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Jandek,
Thee Headcoats,
Lou Christie, Lou Christie, Lou Christie, Lou Christie.
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.