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 Qatar and from Salvador.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 harpsichord 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 KRS-One to the electroclash 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 Matthew Halsall. All the underground hits.
All Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Max Romeo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Masters at Work,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Eve St. Jones,
Niagra,
The Fugs,
Delon & Dalcan,
Slave,
Ituana,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Radiopuhelimet,
Magazine,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Victims,
CMW,
Tim Buckley,
Bronski Beat,
Lalann,
The Blues Magoos,
Oblivians,
The Index,
Kool Moe Dee,
Minor Threat,
Easy Going,
Q and Not U,
Bobby Byrd,
Absolute Body Control,
Rotary Connection,
Derrick May,
MC5,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
the Sonics,
Glambeats Corp.,
Juan Atkins,
Throbbing Gristle,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Busters,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Mummies,
Shuggie Otis,
The Skatalites,
Lower 48,
LL Cool J,
Arab on Radar,
The Seeds,
The Techniques,
Angry Samoans,
The Fall,
Clear Light,
Scott Walker,
F. McDonald,
Kas Product,
John Coltrane,
Mr. Review,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Goldenarms,
Organ,
T.S.O.L.,
the Fania All-Stars, the Fania All-Stars, the Fania All-Stars, the Fania All-Stars.
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.