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 Sweden and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Scott Walker + Sunn O))) to the rock 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 One Last Wish. All the underground hits.
All Cameo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 marimba and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Country Joe & The Fish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Aaron Thompson,
Agent Orange,
The Dave Clark Five,
Monolake,
Albert Ayler,
The Cure,
Spandau Ballet,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Harpers Bizarre,
The American Breed,
Depeche Mode,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Fugs,
Roxy Music,
Easy Going,
Mantronix,
Barclay James Harvest,
Howard Jones,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Ossler,
Liliput,
the Germs,
Newcleus,
Bizarre Inc.,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Sandy B,
Chrome,
LL Cool J,
Rakim,
Mission of Burma,
Darondo,
Arcadia,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
DJ Style,
DJ Sneak,
Barry Ungar,
Bauhaus,
Flash Fearless,
Jeru the Damaja,
Sam Rivers,
Mr. Review,
Half Japanese,
Symarip,
Swell Maps,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Popol Vuh,
Cal Tjader,
Main Source,
PIL,
Section 25,
The Busters,
Gregory Isaacs,
Curtis Mayfield,
Parry Music,
Nik Kershaw,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Saints,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
John Holt,
Marvin Gaye,
Moebius, Moebius, Moebius, Moebius.
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.