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 Chad and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Bob Dylan to the jazz kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Amon Düül II. All the underground hits.
All Todd Rundgren tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Warren Ellis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a New Order record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Theoretical Girls,
Lalann,
Swans,
The Smoke,
Erykah Badu,
Iggy Pop,
Matthew Bourne,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Howard Jones,
Bobby Sherman,
Monolake,
Amazonics,
Soft Machine,
Ralphi Rosario,
Spoonie Gee,
The Names,
Fort Wilson Riot,
World's Most,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
CMW,
Jesper Dahlback,
Liliput,
Gabor Szabo,
The Slackers,
This Heat,
The Grass Roots,
Sarah Menescal,
The Modern Lovers,
Basic Channel,
Whodini,
Funky Four + One,
Joe Finger,
Franke,
Sugar Minott,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Sonics,
Grey Daturas,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
D'Angelo,
Matthew Halsall,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Jawbox,
Pantaleimon,
Jerry's Kids,
Electric Prunes,
The Motions,
The Pretty Things,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Yaz,
the Slits,
ABBA,
Drive Like Jehu,
Lalo Schifrin,
Ituana,
F. McDonald,
The Five Americans,
Joy Division,
The Gories,
Camouflage,
Grandmaster Flash,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Zapp, Zapp, Zapp, Zapp.
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.