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 Croatia and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1966 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the güiro 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 Zapp to the grime 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 The Cure. All the underground hits.
All Rakim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Interpol record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 guitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a LL Cool J record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Christie,
Kerri Chandler,
Bobby Womack,
Supertramp,
DJ Sneak,
These Immortal Souls,
Average White Band,
Iggy Pop,
The Busters,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Residents,
Soul II Soul,
Pere Ubu,
The Toasters,
DJ Style,
MDC,
Prince Buster,
Agitation Free,
Johnny Clarke,
Gastr Del Sol,
10cc,
Popol Vuh,
The Motions,
Desert Stars,
Traffic Nightmare,
In Retrospect,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Nirvana,
Agent Orange,
Underground Resistance,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Sun Ra,
Television Personalities,
Soft Cell,
The Dave Clark Five,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Clear Light,
Cluster,
kango's stein massive,
Marshall Jefferson,
Tim Buckley,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
David Axelrod,
Crispy Ambulance,
Loose Ends,
New Age Steppers,
Neil Young,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Negative Approach,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Ludus,
The New Christs,
Gregory Isaacs,
Technova,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Gladiators,
Stockholm Monsters,
Amon Düül II,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Throbbing Gristle,
Nick Fraelich, Nick Fraelich, Nick Fraelich, Nick Fraelich.
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.