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 Luxembourg and from Copenhagen.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Jesper Dahlback to the grunge 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 Massinfluence. All the underground hits.
All Ralphi Rosario tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Easy Going record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a güiro 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 harpsichord and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
New Order,
Kerri Chandler,
Jacob Miller,
Sonic Youth,
The Neon Judgement,
The Slits,
Los Fastidios,
Lalo Schifrin,
Yusef Lateef,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Accadde A,
Sandy B,
Steve Hackett,
Ludus,
Aaron Thompson,
Stiv Bators,
The Moleskins,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Au Pairs,
Kool Moe Dee,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Piero Umiliani,
Lalann,
Fatback Band,
LL Cool J,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
X-Ray Spex,
The Standells,
Negative Approach,
Rakim,
The Count Five,
World's Most,
Eli Mardock,
Pagans,
Index,
Jerry Gold Smith,
One Last Wish,
Jeff Lynne,
Organ,
Oblivians,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Soulsonic Force,
Icehouse,
John Coltrane,
Erasure,
Matthew Bourne,
Agitation Free,
Pulsallama,
10cc,
John Lydon,
Crash Course in Science,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Alphaville,
Max Romeo,
Cymande,
The Cure,
Pole,
Soul Sonic Force,
Cheater Slicks,
Joe Finger,
Infiniti, Infiniti, Infiniti, Infiniti.
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.