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 Taiwan and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the sitar 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 The Pop Group to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Soft Cell. All the underground hits.
All Bizarre Inc. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Maurizio record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Angry Samoans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Porter Ricks,
Qualms,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Traffic Nightmare,
Shuggie Otis,
Aloha Tigers,
Rosa Yemen,
Sun Ra,
Stereo Dub,
In Retrospect,
Motorama,
Jesper Dahlback,
Gang Green,
Sound Behaviour,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Alice Coltrane,
Brass Construction,
The Blackbyrds,
Infiniti,
Supertramp,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Toasters,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Aswad,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Jacob Miller,
The Slits,
Underground Resistance,
The Electric Prunes,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Barrington Levy,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Erasure,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Gang Starr,
Blancmange,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Last Poets,
Black Moon,
Leonard Cohen,
Black Sheep,
Rufus Thomas,
Chris & Cosey,
Sam Rivers,
Index,
Black Pus,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Shoche,
Banda Bassotti,
a-ha,
Henry Cow,
The Fortunes,
Alison Limerick,
The Cure,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Unrelated Segments,
Byron Stingily,
Angry Samoans,
Accadde A,
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.