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 Laos and from Spokane.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 arpeggiator 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 The Knickerbockers to the crunk 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 Louis and Bebe Barron. All the underground hits.
All Mr. Review tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Glambeats Corp. 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Subhumans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nick Fraelich,
Cluster,
The Gun Club,
Amon Düül II,
The Sound,
Quantec,
Jeff Lynne,
Outsiders,
Adolescents,
Rites of Spring,
Jerry's Kids,
Qualms,
Iggy Pop,
Guru Guru,
The Barracudas,
Scion,
Sixth Finger,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Yazoo,
Tom Boy,
Siglo XX,
Wings,
The Shadows of Knight,
Lalo Schifrin,
Crash Course in Science,
10cc,
Maurizio,
The Invisible,
Erykah Badu,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
MC5,
Gong,
Moby Grape,
Public Enemy,
Tres Demented,
Soulsonic Force,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Alice Coltrane,
Dark Day,
Monolake,
Neil Young,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Evens,
The Mummies,
Fat Boys,
Boz Scaggs,
Boredoms,
The Last Poets,
The Birthday Party,
Grey Daturas,
Audionom,
Skriet,
FM Einheit,
The Dead C,
Michelle Simonal,
The Pretty Things,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Soul II Soul,
Peter & Gordon,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Durutti Column,
Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp..
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.