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 Ecuador and from Stockholm.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Hong Kong.
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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Desert Stars 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 David Axelrod. All the underground hits.
All Freddie Wadling tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every cv313 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eurythmics record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Moody Blues,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Bronski Beat,
Television Personalities,
The Gories,
Joe Smooth,
Crash Course in Science,
Rosa Yemen,
Flamin' Groovies,
L. Decosne,
The Human League,
Basic Channel,
Charles Mingus,
Robert Wyatt,
Half Japanese,
The Fall,
Tim Buckley,
Maurizio,
The United States of America,
Piero Umiliani,
Anakelly,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Eric Dolphy,
Lakeside,
DJ Style,
Davy DMX,
Rhythm & Sound,
Marine Girls,
Angry Samoans,
Steve Hackett,
The Skatalites,
Country Teasers,
Kerri Chandler,
U.S. Maple,
Kenny Larkin,
Graham Central Station,
Khruangbin,
Skaos,
Todd Rundgren,
Yaz,
Spoonie Gee,
Essential Logic,
Isaac Hayes,
Thee Headcoats,
Quando Quango,
Ultravox,
The Litter,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Leonard Cohen,
Bad Manners,
X-Ray Spex,
Harmonia,
Matthew Halsall,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Toni Rubio,
Reuben Wilson,
Hashim,
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.