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 Afghanistan and from Taipei.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Connie Case to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Soulsonic Force. All the underground hits.
All Section 25 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every FM Einheit record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 spring reverb and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Severed Heads record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alison Limerick,
Eden Ahbez,
The Tremeloes,
John Cale,
Janne Schatter,
Ponytail,
Big Daddy Kane,
Jimmy McGriff,
Con Funk Shun,
Chrome,
World's Most,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Nas,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Niagra,
Nils Olav,
Delta 5,
Urselle,
Eve St. Jones,
Porter Ricks,
Susan Cadogan,
Isaac Hayes,
Henry Cow,
Echospace,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Peter & Gordon,
The Five Americans,
Jacques Brel,
Boz Scaggs,
Gang of Four,
Cameo,
T. Rex,
Negative Approach,
Scrapy,
Fort Wilson Riot,
the Swans,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Moleskins,
Sun City Girls,
EPMD,
Sugar Minott,
Pussy Galore,
Royal Trux,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Lungfish,
The Trojans,
8 Eyed Spy,
Boredoms,
Shuggie Otis,
Fad Gadget,
The Birthday Party,
Warsaw,
Ronnie Foster,
Agitation Free,
The Detroit Cobras,
Livin' Joy,
John Holt,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Eric Dolphy,
Smog,
Swell Maps,
The Selecter, The Selecter, The Selecter, The Selecter.
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.