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 Finland and from Beijing.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Lagos.
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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Shuggie Otis to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Delta 5. All the underground hits.
All Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every David McCallum 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ornette Coleman record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum 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,
B.T. Express,
The Gun Club,
Metal Thangz,
John Holt,
Janne Schatter,
Jacques Brel,
Swans,
Young Marble Giants,
Soul II Soul,
Johnny Osbourne,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Gang Gang Dance,
Delon & Dalcan,
Q and Not U,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Smiths,
Peter & Gordon,
Tommy Roe,
The Raincoats,
Hoover,
Todd Terry,
Marmalade,
Tim Buckley,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Young Rascals,
Interpol,
Rosa Yemen,
Echospace,
This Heat,
Black Moon,
Davy DMX,
Barbara Tucker,
PIL,
Public Enemy,
Jawbox,
The Pop Group,
Motorama,
Section 25,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Cecil Taylor,
The Evens,
Liliput,
La Düsseldorf,
Franke,
Theoretical Girls,
Crime,
Minny Pops,
Sarah Menescal,
AZ,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Crispian St. Peters,
Roxette,
Pantytec,
Sound Behaviour,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Charles Mingus,
Duran Duran,
Niagra,
China Crisis,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.