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 Singapore and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Copenhagen.
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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Inner City to the punk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Rakim. All the underground hits.
All UT tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mark Hollis 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Remains record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro 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,
Infiniti,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
the Normal,
The Cramps,
The Alarm Clocks,
Pierre Henry,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Fire Engines,
Visage,
Harpers Bizarre,
Black Moon,
Skarface,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Q65,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Ronan,
H. Thieme,
One Last Wish,
The Happenings,
This Heat,
D'Angelo,
Tubeway Army,
The Pop Group,
Charles Mingus,
Marc Almond,
Moby Grape,
Groovy Waters,
Piero Umiliani,
Curtis Mayfield,
DJ Style,
Stereo Dub,
Scan 7,
Bizarre Inc.,
MC5,
Fluxion,
Bang On A Can,
Jandek,
Donny Hathaway,
Porter Ricks,
Pulsallama,
Matthew Halsall,
Buzzcocks,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Swell Maps,
Nirvana,
Von Mondo,
Electric Prunes,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Walker Brothers,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Searchers,
Boogie Down Productions,
Funkadelic,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Rosa Yemen,
Depeche Mode,
The Young Rascals,
Minutemen,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds.
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.