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 Uzbekistan and from Accra.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Copenhagen.
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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Dead Boys to the punk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Hashim. All the underground hits.
All Don Cherry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Excepter 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Motions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Fugs,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Mars,
Reagan Youth,
Das Ding,
Kas Product,
Freddie Wadling,
Roger Hodgson,
Goldenarms,
Wolf Eyes,
Von Mondo,
Rakim,
The Fire Engines,
Quantec,
Frankie Knuckles,
Idris Muhammad,
Donny Hathaway,
The Grass Roots,
K-Klass,
Cecil Taylor,
Crooked Eye,
Siglo XX,
The Durutti Column,
Smog,
Sly & The Family Stone,
CMW,
The Electric Prunes,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Skarface,
Juan Atkins,
Buzzcocks,
Minutemen,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Todd Terry,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Radiohead,
Nico,
Lalo Schifrin,
EPMD,
Hoover,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Kinks,
Derrick May,
Derrick Morgan,
Flipper,
Sällskapet,
Public Image Ltd.,
Funky Four + One,
Jacob Miller,
The United States of America,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Spandau Ballet,
Spoonie Gee,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Hashim,
the Slits,
Lakeside,
Silicon Teens,
Bang On A Can,
Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale.
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.