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 Laos 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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Jakarta.
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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Gary Puckett & The Union Gap to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Bobby Byrd. All the underground hits.
All Sun Ra Arkestra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Harmonia record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soul Sonic Force record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Black Moon,
The Happenings,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Monochrome Set,
Lower 48,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Inner City,
Unwound,
Youth Brigade,
Harpers Bizarre,
Josef K,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Ten City,
The Modern Lovers,
Talk Talk,
Eric B and Rakim,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Chris & Cosey,
Howard Jones,
Delon & Dalcan,
Junior Murvin,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Velvet Underground,
Technova,
The Blues Magoos,
Interpol,
The Offenders,
Kaleidoscope,
Aswad,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Move,
Ultimate Spinach,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Brick,
Stereo Dub,
Minor Threat,
Hashim,
China Crisis,
Amon Düül,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Blake Baxter,
Letta Mbulu,
Funkadelic,
the Swans,
The Smoke,
World's Most,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Babytalk,
Shuggie Otis,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Vainqueur,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Soft Machine,
KRS-One,
Sixth Finger,
Subhumans, Subhumans, Subhumans, Subhumans.
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.