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 Germany and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 organ 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 Q65 to the jazz 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 UT. All the underground hits.
All The Gap Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Freddie Wadling record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 808 and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Manfred Mann's Earth Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
the Association,
Scrapy,
Scott Walker,
Little Man,
B.T. Express,
Jerry's Kids,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Move,
Harpers Bizarre,
Soul II Soul,
Hardrive,
Blake Baxter,
DNA,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Qualms,
Jeru the Damaja,
Althea and Donna,
Marmalade,
The Gap Band,
Altered Images,
Kenny Larkin,
Jeff Lynne,
Fatback Band,
Neu!,
The Gories,
The Evens,
kango's stein massive,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Talk Talk,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Index,
the Human League,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Gladiators,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Babytalk,
Cameo,
Todd Terry,
Cecil Taylor,
The New Christs,
Whodini,
Scratch Acid,
Minor Threat,
Aloha Tigers,
F. McDonald,
Royal Trux,
Tomorrow,
Sam Rivers,
Groovy Waters,
Goldenarms,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Mo-Dettes,
Das Ding,
Arthur Verocai,
Chris Corsano,
Loose Ends,
Lou Reed,
The Black Dice,
Deadbeat,
The Stooges,
Davy DMX, Davy DMX, Davy DMX, Davy DMX.
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.