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 Cuba and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 The Skatalites to the rap kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Boogie Down Productions. All the underground hits.
All Chris Corsano tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Connie Case record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 an organ and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a La Düsseldorf record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nick Fraelich,
Easy Going,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Bill Near,
Isaac Hayes,
Simply Red,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Byron Stingily,
Moss Icon,
Metal Thangz,
Popol Vuh,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Toni Rubio,
Joe Smooth,
LL Cool J,
Steve Hackett,
Ralphi Rosario,
Loose Ends,
Hashim,
Vladislav Delay,
Gastr Del Sol,
Charles Mingus,
The Pop Group,
Organ,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Fugs,
DNA,
OOIOO,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Fortunes,
Leonard Cohen,
Suburban Knight,
Essential Logic,
Harmonia,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Human League,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Pulsallama,
John Holt,
JFA,
Kayak,
Jeff Mills,
The Grass Roots,
Lower 48,
Index,
Siglo XX,
Traffic Nightmare,
Reuben Wilson,
Qualms,
Model 500,
Peter & Gordon,
the Human League,
cv313,
The New Christs,
Skriet,
Freddie Wadling,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Kenny Larkin,
The Smoke,
Minor Threat,
Symarip,
The Searchers,
PIL, PIL, PIL, PIL.
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.