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 Korea South and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Interpol to the funk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Technova. All the underground hits.
All Gastr Del Sol tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Iggy Pop 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Association record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joe Smooth,
Todd Rundgren,
The Misunderstood,
Lower 48,
CMW,
Bill Wells,
The Kinks,
Altered Images,
The Leaves,
Ultra Naté,
Sarah Menescal,
the Bar-Kays,
The Golliwogs,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Associates,
Joensuu 1685,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Public Image Ltd.,
Tropical Tobacco,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Glambeats Corp.,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Mojo Men,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Amon Düül,
Gang Starr,
Crash Course in Science,
Funky Four + One,
The Fire Engines,
Little Man,
Rod Modell,
The Victims,
Johnny Osbourne,
Alice Coltrane,
Ponytail,
Ohio Players,
The Slackers,
Flash Fearless,
Arab on Radar,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Rites of Spring,
Japan,
The Fall,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Adolescents,
Khruangbin,
The Smiths,
Iggy Pop,
Mantronix,
Bootsy Collins,
MC5,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Archie Shepp,
The Birthday Party,
Gang Gang Dance,
Swell Maps,
Shuggie Otis,
Gong,
Andrew Hill,
Rotary Connection,
Bobby Byrd, Bobby Byrd, Bobby Byrd, Bobby Byrd.
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.