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 Taiwan and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 Cairo and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Faust to the jazz kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Crash Course in Science. All the underground hits.
All MC5 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Black Dice 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 an organ and a clarinet 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 a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Anakelly,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Grey Daturas,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Patti Smith,
Hardrive,
a-ha,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Detroit Cobras,
Soft Cell,
EPMD,
Tim Buckley,
Circle Jerks,
Sugar Minott,
Kayak,
Yusef Lateef,
Flipper,
The New Christs,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Gabor Szabo,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Angry Samoans,
Roxette,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Technova,
Camberwell Now,
Nas,
Television,
The Star Department,
Sonny Sharrock,
Deepchord,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Unrelated Segments,
Little Man,
Television Personalities,
Derrick May,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Birthday Party,
JFA,
Crooked Eye,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Real Kids,
The Gun Club,
The Mojo Men,
Roy Ayers,
Skaos,
Moebius,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Skatalites,
Dorothy Ashby,
Zero Boys,
Mary Jane Girls,
Tubeway Army,
Agitation Free,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Bush Tetras,
the Germs,
Pierre Henry,
The Slits,
Scientists,
Saccharine Trust,
Althea and Donna,
Rakim, Rakim, Rakim, Rakim.
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.