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 Andorra and from Stockholm.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Oneida to the rock 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 Rhythim Is Rhythim. All the underground hits.
All The Zeros tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Zero Boys record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
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 The Mighty Diamonds record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Cosmic Jokers,
Trumans Water,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
La Düsseldorf,
the Germs,
Black Pus,
Neu!,
Isaac Hayes,
Delon & Dalcan,
Sam Rivers,
Mission of Burma,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Lee Hazlewood,
Scrapy,
Con Funk Shun,
Terry Callier,
Jesper Dahlback,
the Fania All-Stars,
Quadrant,
Derrick Morgan,
Juan Atkins,
Blossom Toes,
Little Man,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Gap Band,
Susan Cadogan,
Skarface,
Can,
The Blackbyrds,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Electric Prunes,
a-ha,
Janne Schatter,
Pantaleimon,
Marine Girls,
Accadde A,
Average White Band,
Faust,
Donny Hathaway,
Q and Not U,
The Alarm Clocks,
Thompson Twins,
Warren Ellis,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
H. Thieme,
Barclay James Harvest,
Schoolly D,
LL Cool J,
Tres Demented,
Alphaville,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Fall,
Agitation Free,
Judy Mowatt,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Eden Ahbez,
Grandmaster Flash,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Young Marble Giants,
Bang On A Can, Bang On A Can, Bang On A Can, Bang On A Can.
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.