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 Congo and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 rhodes 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 Easy Going to the crunk 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 Underground Resistance. All the underground hits.
All Bluetip tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 theremin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Music Machine record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nick Fraelich,
The Electric Prunes,
Wire,
The Associates,
Fat Boys,
The Offenders,
Lower 48,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Wolf Eyes,
John Cale,
Porter Ricks,
Glenn Branca,
Faraquet,
Vladislav Delay,
Joyce Sims,
Drexciya,
Glambeats Corp.,
Brothers Johnson,
Lightning Bolt,
Popol Vuh,
Dual Sessions,
Arab on Radar,
Rakim,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Sugar Minott,
Alphaville,
The Blues Magoos,
Eric Copeland,
the Germs,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Panda Bear,
John Coltrane,
Jeff Mills,
Spoonie Gee,
the Swans,
Crime,
The Leaves,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Alarm Clocks,
Brick,
cv313,
Yellowson,
kango's stein massive,
Susan Cadogan,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Real Kids,
Radio Birdman,
The Count Five,
Lou Reed,
Symarip,
Warsaw,
The Fuzztones,
Josef K,
The Invisible,
London Community Gospel Choir,
New Age Steppers,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Gastr Del Sol,
Davy DMX,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.