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 Montenegro and from Philadelphia.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 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 Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft to the grunge kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 The Royal Family And The Poor. All the underground hits.
All Livin' Joy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Boz Scaggs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 mellotron and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Terry Callier record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Q65,
Scott Walker,
Freddie Wadling,
Fat Boys,
Fela Kuti,
The New Christs,
The Five Americans,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Animal Collective,
Hot Snakes,
Whodini,
Q and Not U,
The Blues Magoos,
Soft Cell,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Essential Logic,
Juan Atkins,
David Axelrod,
La Düsseldorf,
JFA,
The Vogues,
the Normal,
The Angels of Light,
Soft Machine,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Eric Dolphy,
June of 44,
Lower 48,
Tim Buckley,
Graham Central Station,
Can,
The Misunderstood,
Boogie Down Productions,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Pretty Things,
Black Moon,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Talk Talk,
Sonic Youth,
Minnie Riperton,
Toni Rubio,
FM Einheit,
Dennis Brown,
Intrusion,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Bluetip,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Al Stewart,
Public Enemy,
Fugazi,
UT,
Bauhaus,
The Gladiators,
Drive Like Jehu,
Skaos,
Sugar Minott,
Laurel Aitken,
Ohio Players, Ohio Players, Ohio Players, Ohio Players.
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.