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 Switzerland and from Lyon.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Panda Bear to the rock 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 MC5. All the underground hits.
All Panda Bear tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Vaughan Mason & Crew 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mad Mike record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marvin Gaye,
Hasil Adkins,
Mary Jane Girls,
Wasted Youth,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Underground Resistance,
Todd Rundgren,
The Seeds,
John Lydon,
Audionom,
Arab on Radar,
Kaleidoscope,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Names,
Easy Going,
Bizarre Inc.,
Pulsallama,
Shuggie Otis,
Masters at Work,
Amon Düül II,
Minor Threat,
Von Mondo,
Roy Ayers,
Delta 5,
Sällskapet,
Godley & Creme,
Jandek,
Liliput,
Essential Logic,
Agitation Free,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Modern Lovers,
Todd Terry,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Young Marble Giants,
Basic Channel,
Simply Red,
ABC,
Make Up,
the Slits,
Terrestrial Tones,
China Crisis,
Don Cherry,
The Golliwogs,
Pantytec,
Bill Wells,
Scott Walker,
Zero Boys,
Lightning Bolt,
The Count Five,
The Stooges,
Gabor Szabo,
Au Pairs,
Hashim,
Tommy Roe,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Jerry's Kids,
Spoonie Gee,
Rakim,
Silicon Teens,
World's Most,
The Gories,
The Invisible, The Invisible, The Invisible, The Invisible.
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.