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 Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Deepchord to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Niagra. All the underground hits.
All Avey Tare tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Byron Stingily record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soft Machine record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Icehouse,
U.S. Maple,
Barry Ungar,
Suburban Knight,
the Bar-Kays,
David Axelrod,
The Gories,
Ronan,
Don Cherry,
Cal Tjader,
Throbbing Gristle,
Byron Stingily,
Scan 7,
Mad Mike,
The Music Machine,
Aaron Thompson,
The United States of America,
The Mummies,
Albert Ayler,
Jerry's Kids,
Organ,
Fluxion,
The Sound,
Freddie Wadling,
JFA,
The Fall,
Babytalk,
The Blues Magoos,
Crime,
D'Angelo,
Marine Girls,
MC5,
Monolake,
Whodini,
Jeru the Damaja,
Roxy Music,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Skriet,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
the Human League,
Funky Four + One,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Pere Ubu,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Neil Young,
The Offenders,
Aural Exciters,
The Motions,
Yazoo,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
kango's stein massive,
The Velvet Underground,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Rufus Thomas,
Minny Pops,
L. Decosne,
The Skatalites,
The Dead C,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Zapp,
The Evens,
The Blackbyrds,
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.