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 Italy and from Copenhagen.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 Glambeats Corp. to the techno 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 A Flock of Seagulls. All the underground hits.
All Danielle Patucci tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Black Sheep record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Schoolly D,
Todd Rundgren,
Circle Jerks,
Pierre Henry,
Wasted Youth,
The Happenings,
The Buckinghams,
Frankie Knuckles,
Lucky Dragons,
Grauzone,
Roxy Music,
Reagan Youth,
The Wake,
Fatback Band,
Oneida,
The Move,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Ludus,
Hardrive,
Ossler,
Banda Bassotti,
Minor Threat,
The Birthday Party,
Glenn Branca,
Guru Guru,
Main Source,
Soft Machine,
Lalo Schifrin,
Pet Shop Boys,
Tim Buckley,
John Cale,
Subhumans,
Marmalade,
Clear Light,
Nico,
Bill Wells,
The Dave Clark Five,
Kayak,
Talk Talk,
Soulsonic Force,
Stetsasonic,
Jimmy McGriff,
Roy Ayers,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Marcia Griffiths,
Yazoo,
Bang On A Can,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Drexciya,
Pylon,
Average White Band,
Freddie Wadling,
Babytalk,
Junior Murvin,
The United States of America,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Count Five,
E-Dancer,
Yusef Lateef, Yusef Lateef, Yusef Lateef, Yusef Lateef.
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.