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 Denmark and from Winnipeg.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Rotary Connection. All the underground hits.
All Josef K tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Stereo Dub record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 güiro and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Procol Harum,
Colin Newman,
Marshall Jefferson,
Gregory Isaacs,
Peter and Kerry,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Remains,
The Moody Blues,
Q65,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Average White Band,
Radiopuhelimet,
Fela Kuti,
Severed Heads,
Harry Pussy,
Lyres,
Gabor Szabo,
The Walker Brothers,
JFA,
Essential Logic,
The Beau Brummels,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Marcia Griffiths,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Freddie Wadling,
Bizarre Inc.,
Man Parrish,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Eurythmics,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Detroit Cobras,
Rapeman,
Jacques Brel,
R.M.O.,
The Cramps,
Oblivians,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Derrick May,
The Red Krayola,
H. Thieme,
Country Teasers,
Yusef Lateef,
Agitation Free,
Whodini,
Siglo XX,
The Cowsills,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Easy Going,
Reagan Youth,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Fear,
Funky Four + One,
John Holt,
Bronski Beat,
Porter Ricks,
Kurtis Blow,
Alphaville,
Lakeside,
F. McDonald,
Dawn Penn,
K-Klass,
Bobby Womack,
Hasil Adkins, Hasil Adkins, Hasil Adkins, Hasil Adkins.
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.