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 Tuvalu and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Slick Rick to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Von Mondo. All the underground hits.
All Fugazi tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Easy Going 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Janne Schatter record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
B.T. Express,
Niagra,
James White and The Blacks,
Barry Ungar,
Max Romeo,
Nick Fraelich,
Massinfluence,
Nirvana,
Fad Gadget,
Nas,
The Mummies,
Panda Bear,
The Star Department,
The Toasters,
Roger Hodgson,
T.S.O.L.,
Monolake,
Crooked Eye,
Brothers Johnson,
Avey Tare,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Jandek,
The J.B.'s,
Scratch Acid,
Drive Like Jehu,
Soft Cell,
Bill Wells,
Idris Muhammad,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Circle Jerks,
This Heat,
Delta 5,
Television,
Ossler,
PIL,
Gerry Rafferty,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Roxette,
Sonic Youth,
Soul Sonic Force,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Fugs,
Tommy Roe,
Kurtis Blow,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Radiohead,
Joy Division,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Duran Duran,
Fat Boys,
Anakelly,
Deadbeat,
Quando Quango,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Bizarre Inc.,
Trumans Water,
Amon Düül,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Spoonie Gee, Spoonie Gee, Spoonie Gee, Spoonie Gee.
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.