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 Mauritius and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Massinfluence to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra. All the underground hits.
All Minor Threat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Technova record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Funkadelic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nick Fraelich,
This Heat,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
These Immortal Souls,
Lou Christie,
Glambeats Corp.,
Mary Jane Girls,
Aural Exciters,
the Swans,
Black Moon,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Fad Gadget,
Scientists,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Lyres,
Heaven 17,
Johnny Osbourne,
Glenn Branca,
E-Dancer,
Whodini,
Los Fastidios,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Negative Approach,
Lower 48,
T. Rex,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Detroit Cobras,
Eyeless In Gaza,
the Bar-Kays,
Quadrant,
T.S.O.L.,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Absolute Body Control,
R.M.O.,
AZ,
Q and Not U,
the Soft Cell,
Tomorrow,
Siglo XX,
Dead Boys,
Joe Finger,
Chris & Cosey,
Essential Logic,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Stetsasonic,
Yusef Lateef,
The Zeros,
Magma,
Michelle Simonal,
The Young Rascals,
The Mojo Men,
Shoche,
Rod Modell,
Sound Behaviour,
Alice Coltrane,
Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub.
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.