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 Egypt and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Avey Tare to the rock 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 Bush Tetras. All the underground hits.
All Sound Behaviour tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rahsaan Roland Kirk record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hasil Adkins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
June Days,
Technova,
Joey Negro,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Spoonie Gee,
Freddie Wadling,
Stiv Bators,
T.S.O.L.,
Bobby Sherman,
Y Pants,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Reuben Wilson,
Cybotron,
Ultravox,
Nils Olav,
Amon Düül,
Moebius,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Gories,
The Cure,
The Cramps,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Mantronix,
Agent Orange,
The New Christs,
E-Dancer,
Barclay James Harvest,
Deepchord,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Liliput,
Bizarre Inc.,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Terrestrial Tones,
Avey Tare,
Dark Day,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Bobby Byrd,
Second Layer,
Minutemen,
The Zeros,
Juan Atkins,
Alton Ellis,
ABC,
Minnie Riperton,
Erykah Badu,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Fatback Band,
Audionom,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Smoke,
Peter & Gordon,
Ohio Players,
the Soft Cell,
Godley & Creme,
Eddi Front,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
F. McDonald,
The Star Department, The Star Department, The Star Department, The Star Department.
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.