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 Libya and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Warsaw to the punk 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 Underground Resistance. All the underground hits.
All 10cc tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fear 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an arpeggiator 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 organ and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Happenings,
Boredoms,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Echospace,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Doobie Brothers,
Aural Exciters,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Tim Buckley,
The Barracudas,
Alison Limerick,
Can,
Leonard Cohen,
Anthony Braxton,
Ronan,
Monolake,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Ultra Naté,
The Slackers,
Deadbeat,
Lightning Bolt,
The Remains,
Dave Gahan,
Rakim,
The Monks,
New Age Steppers,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Jeff Mills,
Rekid,
Parry Music,
Prince Buster,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Kerrie Biddell,
Sugar Minott,
Bush Tetras,
The Selecter,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Tres Demented,
The Black Dice,
Ponytail,
Piero Umiliani,
Hasil Adkins,
Roy Ayers,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
AZ,
Gabor Szabo,
Radiohead,
Colin Newman,
Von Mondo,
Blancmange,
Gang Gang Dance,
Robert Wyatt,
Ken Boothe,
Iggy Pop,
Barry Ungar,
Lindisfarne,
Make Up,
Heaven 17,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience.
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.