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 Liechtenstein and from Seoul.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Tokyo.
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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Dave Clark Five to the grime kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme. All the underground hits.
All Chris Corsano tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aswad record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 güiro and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Minor Threat record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nick Fraelich,
June Days,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
cv313,
Sister Nancy,
Cluster,
Archie Shepp,
Connie Case,
Talk Talk,
Procol Harum,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The J.B.'s,
Donald Byrd,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Kinks,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Nirvana,
Flamin' Groovies,
Quadrant,
the Human League,
Underground Resistance,
Nas,
The Count Five,
The Sonics,
Amon Düül II,
UT,
Frankie Knuckles,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Con Funk Shun,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Inner City,
The Pretty Things,
The Buckinghams,
Duran Duran,
Pantaleimon,
Wings,
Moss Icon,
Big Daddy Kane,
Lalo Schifrin,
Eric Dolphy,
Anakelly,
Aaron Thompson,
Godley & Creme,
The Raincoats,
Camouflage,
Fat Boys,
Ludus,
Jandek,
Aswad,
Alison Limerick,
Schoolly D,
Harry Pussy,
Tomorrow,
John Coltrane,
The Leaves,
The Offenders,
The Real Kids,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Agent Orange,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Golliwogs,
Soulsonic Force, Soulsonic Force, Soulsonic Force, Soulsonic Force.
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.