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 Portugal and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 theremin 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 Marc Almond to the funk 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 Youth Brigade. All the underground hits.
All Con Funk Shun tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Piero Umiliani 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Barclay James Harvest record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cheater Slicks,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Can,
Joensuu 1685,
The Gladiators,
The Fuzztones,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Model 500,
CMW,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Los Fastidios,
Avey Tare,
Dennis Brown,
Ice-T,
Idris Muhammad,
Tommy Roe,
Lalann,
Second Layer,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Smog,
The Music Machine,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Joyce Sims,
Moby Grape,
Subhumans,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Archie Shepp,
FM Einheit,
Underground Resistance,
Severed Heads,
Anthony Braxton,
The Blackbyrds,
Barclay James Harvest,
Dark Day,
Terry Callier,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Aural Exciters,
Heaven 17,
Amon Düül II,
Cameo,
John Cale,
The Kinks,
Roxette,
Brass Construction,
Scrapy,
Joey Negro,
Ossler,
X-101,
The Count Five,
The Cramps,
The Real Kids,
Monks,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Spoonie Gee,
Icehouse,
The Mighty Diamonds,
cv313, cv313, cv313, cv313.
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.