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 Korea South and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in London.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Glambeats Corp. to the grunge 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 Sun Ra. All the underground hits.
All Peter & Gordon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soul II Soul record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cybotron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nick Fraelich,
Echospace,
Loose Ends,
Sun City Girls,
Stetsasonic,
John Foxx,
Moebius,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Talk Talk,
Eli Mardock,
Jacob Miller,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
kango's stein massive,
Crispy Ambulance,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
A Certain Ratio,
Aaron Thompson,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Move,
Iggy Pop,
Yaz,
Black Pus,
Skarface,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Colin Newman,
Donald Byrd,
Marcia Griffiths,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Average White Band,
Bill Wells,
Isaac Hayes,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Morten Harket,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Big Daddy Kane,
Bizarre Inc.,
Ice-T,
Animal Collective,
Infiniti,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Motions,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Todd Rundgren,
The Dirtbombs,
Connie Case,
The Alarm Clocks,
Bang On A Can,
Mandrill,
Althea and Donna,
Harpers Bizarre,
Marmalade,
Rhythm & Sound,
Fluxion,
The Monochrome Set,
Interpol,
8 Eyed Spy,
Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale.
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.