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 Tajikistan and from Cairo.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 clarinet 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 Tommy Roe to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Gerry Rafferty. All the underground hits.
All Dorothy Ashby tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Erasure 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scientists record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Gang Green,
Subhumans,
Outsiders,
Amon Düül,
X-102,
Nico,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Robert Wyatt,
Bobby Sherman,
UT,
Lalo Schifrin,
Oneida,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Black Pus,
The Count Five,
Warren Ellis,
Black Sheep,
Judy Mowatt,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Roy Ayers,
The Doobie Brothers,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Groovy Waters,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Gregory Isaacs,
Excepter,
K-Klass,
Kool Moe Dee,
Joensuu 1685,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
David Bowie,
The Mojo Men,
Youth Brigade,
L. Decosne,
Chrome,
Nas,
Sällskapet,
Animal Collective,
Hashim,
Marine Girls,
Infiniti,
MC5,
Sandy B,
Fatback Band,
Schoolly D,
the Bar-Kays,
Harpers Bizarre,
Mary Jane Girls,
Robert Hood,
Fluxion,
The Happenings,
The Vogues,
MDC,
Mandrill,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Fugs,
Avey Tare, Avey Tare, Avey Tare, Avey Tare.
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.