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 Kenya and from Philadelphia.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Wings to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Sällskapet. All the underground hits.
All Scrapy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Con Funk Shun 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jerry's Kids record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cluster,
Eric Copeland,
Archie Shepp,
La Düsseldorf,
Pagans,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Malaria!,
Magma,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
UT,
Scratch Acid,
Guru Guru,
Nick Fraelich,
John Foxx,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Girls At Our Best!,
Darondo,
The Cramps,
Nik Kershaw,
Sonny Sharrock,
Traffic Nightmare,
Scrapy,
Mary Jane Girls,
Heaven 17,
Ice-T,
Jawbox,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Easy Going,
Jesper Dahlback,
Sugar Minott,
Gang Starr,
Procol Harum,
Excepter,
Judy Mowatt,
Soft Machine,
Lyres,
Accadde A,
Nils Olav,
Ultra Naté,
Royal Trux,
Absolute Body Control,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Busters,
Bobby Byrd,
John Holt,
Au Pairs,
Visage,
Hashim,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Doobie Brothers,
Franke,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Fugs,
The Black Dice,
Amazonics,
Slick Rick,
Goldenarms,
the Association,
Spandau Ballet,
Skriet,
Crooked Eye,
Gang of Four, Gang of Four, Gang of Four, Gang of Four.
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.