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 Kiribati and from Lyon.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
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 Zero Boys to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Flipper. All the underground hits.
All The Chocolate Watch Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ossler record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 a linndrum and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Freddie Wadling record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Minnie Riperton,
Sun City Girls,
Chris Corsano,
Bobbi Humphrey,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Glenn Branca,
R.M.O.,
Marcia Griffiths,
Ituana,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Leonard Cohen,
Alton Ellis,
Joensuu 1685,
Model 500,
Cal Tjader,
Deepchord,
Boredoms,
Tears for Fears,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Accadde A,
New Order,
Toni Rubio,
Dorothy Ashby,
Alison Limerick,
Scrapy,
Michelle Simonal,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Roxy Music,
Y Pants,
Throbbing Gristle,
Ponytail,
Gregory Isaacs,
Alice Coltrane,
The United States of America,
Mission of Burma,
Technova,
The Trojans,
The Searchers,
Soulsonic Force,
Lebanon Hanover,
Peter and Kerry,
John Cale,
Panda Bear,
Letta Mbulu,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Laurel Aitken,
JFA,
Intrusion,
Scott Walker,
Bizarre Inc.,
Sex Pistols,
Eddi Front,
Lindisfarne,
Underground Resistance,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Crispian St. Peters,
Zero Boys,
The Detroit Cobras, The Detroit Cobras, The Detroit Cobras, The Detroit Cobras.
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.