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 Afghanistan 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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Althea and Donna to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Marcia Griffiths. All the underground hits.
All Ohio Players tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 an oboe and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nick Fraelich record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Patti Smith,
La Düsseldorf,
The Cure,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Black Dice,
Smog,
Lou Reed,
the Human League,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Visage,
The American Breed,
Bang On A Can,
Maleditus Sound,
X-Ray Spex,
Jimmy McGriff,
Connie Case,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Isaac Hayes,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Lou Christie,
Eve St. Jones,
Bad Manners,
Soul II Soul,
Silicon Teens,
Minor Threat,
Circle Jerks,
Al Stewart,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Saints,
Babytalk,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Toni Rubio,
Deadbeat,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Rotary Connection,
Joyce Sims,
B.T. Express,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Gang Starr,
In Retrospect,
Clear Light,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Peter & Gordon,
Newcleus,
Animal Collective,
Brick,
Organ,
The Dead C,
June Days,
Rites of Spring,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Section 25,
Sight & Sound,
The Happenings,
Carl Craig,
R.M.O.,
Grey Daturas,
Dorothy Ashby,
Severed Heads,
Crispian St. Peters,
John Foxx,
Kevin Saunderson,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.