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 Micronesia and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark to the rock 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 Quantec. All the underground hits.
All The Buckinghams tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Harry Pussy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a spring reverb 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 guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Groovy Waters,
Prince Buster,
The Monks,
Derrick May,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Seeds,
World's Most,
X-102,
The Evens,
The Last Poets,
Eden Ahbez,
Crooked Eye,
Stetsasonic,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Model 500,
Kas Product,
Urselle,
The Motions,
Supertramp,
Young Marble Giants,
Sexual Harrassment,
Ituana,
The Associates,
Massinfluence,
The Selecter,
Traffic Nightmare,
Icehouse,
Grandmaster Flash,
Crash Course in Science,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
David Bowie,
Nas,
Organ,
Lucky Dragons,
Todd Terry,
The Standells,
Henry Cow,
Tom Boy,
Mars,
Blake Baxter,
Kurtis Blow,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Soft Cell,
Ultimate Spinach,
Nation of Ulysses,
One Last Wish,
Grauzone,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Saccharine Trust,
Swans,
DJ Sneak,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Suburban Knight,
Television,
Black Bananas,
Whodini,
Howard Jones,
In Retrospect,
Neil Young,
Ronnie Foster,
Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica.
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.