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 Indonesia and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in 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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Crash Course in Science to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Walker Brothers. All the underground hits.
All Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Intrusion record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an organ 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 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Amon Düül,
Leonard Cohen,
Ten City,
Hasil Adkins,
Minutemen,
Magma,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Mummies,
Mars,
Fad Gadget,
Nils Olav,
Sonic Youth,
DJ Style,
Panda Bear,
Malaria!,
This Heat,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Rosa Yemen,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Camouflage,
Colin Newman,
Suburban Knight,
The J.B.'s,
The Doobie Brothers,
Robert Wyatt,
Tomorrow,
Buzzcocks,
Rotary Connection,
A Certain Ratio,
Inner City,
Pierre Henry,
The Cure,
Gang Green,
Khruangbin,
Sister Nancy,
Howard Jones,
Dark Day,
a-ha,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Searchers,
Marshall Jefferson,
Sugar Minott,
Neu!,
The Flesh Eaters,
Sandy B,
Avey Tare,
Ronan,
Dennis Brown,
Saccharine Trust,
The Music Machine,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Pet Shop Boys,
June Days,
E-Dancer,
Radiopuhelimet,
DNA,
The Sisters of Mercy,
the Bar-Kays,
Junior Murvin,
The Leaves,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Moody Blues, The Moody Blues, The Moody Blues, The Moody Blues.
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.