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 Kiribati 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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the oboe 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 Qualms to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Judy Mowatt. All the underground hits.
All Adolescents tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jawbox record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Standells record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Fugazi,
Albert Ayler,
Liliput,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Cecil Taylor,
KRS-One,
Average White Band,
The Red Krayola,
New Order,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Flipper,
The Mummies,
Motorama,
Audionom,
Sixth Finger,
Brothers Johnson,
Brand Nubian,
kango's stein massive,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Kinks,
Quadrant,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Connie Case,
The Count Five,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Pole,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
JFA,
Gang of Four,
Joe Smooth,
Soft Cell,
Amon Düül,
Gang Green,
The Standells,
DJ Style,
Urselle,
The New Christs,
Crash Course in Science,
Malaria!,
Johnny Osbourne,
Max Romeo,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
T.S.O.L.,
June of 44,
The Birthday Party,
Lalo Schifrin,
Radio Birdman,
Davy DMX,
Essential Logic,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Monks,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Camouflage,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Toni Rubio,
Lyres,
Neil Young, Neil Young, Neil Young, Neil Young.
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.