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 Australia and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the 808 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 The Young Rascals to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Qualms. All the underground hits.
All The Kinks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sunsets and Hearts 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ohio Players record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lebanon Hanover,
Gerry Rafferty,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Michelle Simonal,
Royal Trux,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Procol Harum,
Mad Mike,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Sex Pistols,
Buzzcocks,
Janne Schatter,
The Kinks,
Fad Gadget,
Dual Sessions,
Organ,
Khruangbin,
Piero Umiliani,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Velvet Underground,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Dawn Penn,
the Germs,
The Smoke,
The Beau Brummels,
Prince Buster,
Lucky Dragons,
Altered Images,
Pharoah Sanders,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Busters,
The Fire Engines,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Agent Orange,
The Standells,
The Five Americans,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Dead Boys,
Amazonics,
The Doobie Brothers,
Section 25,
Lalo Schifrin,
Motorama,
Iggy Pop,
Stiv Bators,
Mo-Dettes,
Crash Course in Science,
David Bowie,
8 Eyed Spy,
Moby Grape,
Kerri Chandler,
48th St. Collective,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Unrelated Segments,
Television Personalities,
Ossler,
Half Japanese,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Marvin Gaye,
The Barracudas, The Barracudas, The Barracudas, The Barracudas.
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.