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 Germany and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 sitar 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 Sunsets and Hearts to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Panda Bear. All the underground hits.
All Connie Case tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Franke record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Major Organ And The Adding Machine record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Negative Approach,
Curtis Mayfield,
Easy Going,
Royal Trux,
Delon & Dalcan,
Nirvana,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Bobby Byrd,
In Retrospect,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Ralphi Rosario,
Fluxion,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Warsaw,
Black Bananas,
Panda Bear,
The Moleskins,
Blake Baxter,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Roy Ayers,
Franke,
Wally Richardson,
Agitation Free,
Ice-T,
Scott Walker,
Country Joe & The Fish,
48th St. Collective,
Al Stewart,
Yazoo,
the Swans,
The Barracudas,
Masters at Work,
Basic Channel,
Sonic Youth,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Minnie Riperton,
Terry Callier,
Heaven 17,
Darondo,
Pere Ubu,
8 Eyed Spy,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Iggy Pop,
Steve Hackett,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Sun City Girls,
Nick Fraelich,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Lalann,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Nils Olav,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Dave Clark Five,
Tommy Roe,
The Seeds,
The Grass Roots,
OOIOO,
The Toasters,
Barry Ungar, Barry Ungar, Barry Ungar, Barry Ungar.
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.