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 East Timor and from Madrid.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 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 Danielle Patucci to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks. All the underground hits.
All Louis and Bebe Barron tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Godley & Creme 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Sound,
David Axelrod,
Soft Machine,
Joensuu 1685,
Ponytail,
Unwound,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Eddi Front,
Howard Jones,
Davy DMX,
Youth Brigade,
The Sonics,
The Modern Lovers,
KRS-One,
Bob Dylan,
Chris Corsano,
Moss Icon,
Moby Grape,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Maleditus Sound,
Frankie Knuckles,
Siglo XX,
Black Moon,
Sparks,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Qualms,
The Gap Band,
Rufus Thomas,
Minnie Riperton,
Bush Tetras,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Dirtbombs,
Nation of Ulysses,
John Coltrane,
Marine Girls,
Quando Quango,
JFA,
Soft Cell,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Count Five,
Deepchord,
U.S. Maple,
Arab on Radar,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Yaz,
The Young Rascals,
Section 25,
Byron Stingily,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Shadows of Knight,
Aaron Thompson,
Das Ding,
Drexciya,
Nas,
Japan,
Joy Division,
Guru Guru,
The Vogues,
Loose Ends,
Kaleidoscope, Kaleidoscope, Kaleidoscope, Kaleidoscope.
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.