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 Bahamas and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Accra.
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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Albert Ayler to the electroclash 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 Don Cherry. All the underground hits.
All Ohio Players tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Modern Lovers 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lower 48 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Slits,
X-Ray Spex,
Aswad,
David Axelrod,
Niagra,
Groovy Waters,
Pantytec,
The Blues Magoos,
kango's stein massive,
The Monks,
Sight & Sound,
Ornette Coleman,
The Barracudas,
Eyeless In Gaza,
cv313,
Bizarre Inc.,
Moss Icon,
Guru Guru,
Rosa Yemen,
Unrelated Segments,
Delta 5,
The Golliwogs,
The Index,
Donald Byrd,
La Düsseldorf,
Monks,
Scott Walker,
One Last Wish,
Steve Hackett,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Star Department,
OOIOO,
Grandmaster Flash,
Nico,
Joyce Sims,
Man Eating Sloth,
June of 44,
Accadde A,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Lightning Bolt,
The United States of America,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Move,
The Sound,
Ituana,
Delon & Dalcan,
Qualms,
Marshall Jefferson,
Terrestrial Tones,
Lalann,
Newcleus,
Au Pairs,
Barry Ungar,
Smog,
Alison Limerick,
A Certain Ratio,
The Kinks,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
T.S.O.L.,
The Motions,
The Angels of Light, The Angels of Light, The Angels of Light, The Angels of Light.
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.