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 Namibia and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 rhodes 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 Mantronix to the techno kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Letta Mbulu. All the underground hits.
All Stereo Dub tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Anakelly record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin 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 spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar 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?
Junior Murvin,
Swans,
Unrelated Segments,
Minor Threat,
The Grass Roots,
Roxette,
Angry Samoans,
A Certain Ratio,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
ABC,
Khruangbin,
Sixth Finger,
Joyce Sims,
Fort Wilson Riot,
the Swans,
Popol Vuh,
Hoover,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Bobby Sherman,
Severed Heads,
Ice-T,
Icehouse,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Echospace,
Pantytec,
the Bar-Kays,
Harpers Bizarre,
Soul II Soul,
Idris Muhammad,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
the Sonics,
The Wake,
The Moleskins,
Boogie Down Productions,
Fatback Band,
The Gladiators,
Sonic Youth,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Can,
The Vogues,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Marshall Jefferson,
Animal Collective,
Sällskapet,
Gong,
Easy Going,
Graham Central Station,
Eric Dolphy,
Slave,
JFA,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Neu!,
The Shadows of Knight,
Aural Exciters,
The Kinks,
Amon Düül,
Gang Starr,
Unwound,
Dave Gahan,
Roxy Music, Roxy Music, Roxy Music, Roxy Music.
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.