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 Jamaica and from Taipei.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Cecil Taylor to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Goldenarms. All the underground hits.
All Television Personalities tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Graham Central Station 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 an oboe and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Stiv Bators record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aural Exciters,
Alphaville,
Cybotron,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Minny Pops,
kango's stein massive,
Crispian St. Peters,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
New Age Steppers,
Bootsy Collins,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Hasil Adkins,
Marcia Griffiths,
JFA,
X-101,
Newcleus,
La Düsseldorf,
Tomorrow,
The Dave Clark Five,
Pulsallama,
Jimmy McGriff,
Nils Olav,
Roger Hodgson,
Minutemen,
Harry Pussy,
Loose Ends,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Leonard Cohen,
The Velvet Underground,
Basic Channel,
Essential Logic,
Danielle Patucci,
The Moody Blues,
Cal Tjader,
The Fortunes,
48th St. Collective,
The Star Department,
Man Parrish,
Ultimate Spinach,
Procol Harum,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Saints,
Minor Threat,
Groovy Waters,
Glambeats Corp.,
cv313,
Fluxion,
Flash Fearless,
Wire,
Monks,
Talk Talk,
Robert Hood,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Lakeside,
The Cure,
Sällskapet,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Rekid,
Nick Fraelich, Nick Fraelich, Nick Fraelich, Nick Fraelich.
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.