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 Egypt and from Houston.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Jesper Dahlbäck to the grunge kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Joe Finger. All the underground hits.
All Pharoah Sanders tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Evens record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vainqueur record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Flash Fearless,
Funky Four + One,
The Knickerbockers,
These Immortal Souls,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Crispian St. Peters,
Simply Red,
Soft Machine,
Skriet,
Dead Boys,
Ituana,
Sexual Harrassment,
Trumans Water,
Niagra,
Alison Limerick,
DJ Sneak,
Erykah Badu,
The Last Poets,
DJ Style,
The Alarm Clocks,
the Normal,
Freddie Wadling,
Barclay James Harvest,
Lalann,
Nick Fraelich,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
In Retrospect,
Fugazi,
Jerry's Kids,
Deakin,
Robert Wyatt,
Theoretical Girls,
John Cale,
The Gladiators,
Pharoah Sanders,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Leonard Cohen,
Franke,
Bang On A Can,
Drive Like Jehu,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Bush Tetras,
Section 25,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Quadrant,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
A Certain Ratio,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Cal Tjader,
Zapp,
Pole,
Scratch Acid,
Lou Christie,
Hashim,
Ultravox,
Tears for Fears,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Faraquet,
Lightning Bolt,
Soulsonic Force,
Schoolly D, Schoolly D, Schoolly D, Schoolly D.
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.