Ok, I finally found a physics prof on campus who I hadn't cornered before. After I got him over the "You don't understand lift" nonsense he told me that the extra lift is coming from "molecular forces." Ok, I'll have to think about this one. However, another point he made was if you have a perfect fluid, and a perfect airfoil, the airfoil would produce lift without friction. I take this as that means you'd get lift forever without the airfoil slowing due to drag from any initial force you applied to it.
How about that?