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 Nauru and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 Manila and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Don Cherry to the punk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All 10cc tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minor Threat record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Morten Harket 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?
Donald Byrd,
Silicon Teens,
Marshall Jefferson,
Lucky Dragons,
Interpol,
Minutemen,
Animal Collective,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Y Pants,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Joy Division,
The Invisible,
Suburban Knight,
Delta 5,
Circle Jerks,
The Monks,
Kevin Saunderson,
Connie Case,
Toni Rubio,
Kerrie Biddell,
Skaos,
JFA,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Kinks,
Essential Logic,
Crime,
DNA,
Fad Gadget,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Eric Copeland,
Alton Ellis,
Girls At Our Best!,
Lalo Schifrin,
Brick,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Sonic Youth,
Mars,
Steve Hackett,
Neil Young,
This Heat,
Wally Richardson,
kango's stein massive,
The Fuzztones,
Cheater Slicks,
Zero Boys,
Sam Rivers,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Mr. Review,
Fear,
Freddie Wadling,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Barclay James Harvest,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
ABBA,
Eric Dolphy,
John Lydon,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Leaves,
Todd Terry,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Skatalites,
Symarip,
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.