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 Korea North and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
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 Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane. All the underground hits.
All Cecil Taylor tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roy Ayers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 808 and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Justin Hinds & The Dominoes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Slave,
Stockholm Monsters,
Kenny Larkin,
Zero Boys,
Gabor Szabo,
Motorama,
the Bar-Kays,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Gregory Isaacs,
Dead Boys,
Leonard Cohen,
Delta 5,
Whodini,
Depeche Mode,
John Cale,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Isaac Hayes,
The Walker Brothers,
JFA,
Frankie Knuckles,
E-Dancer,
Jawbox,
Tomorrow,
Robert Görl,
Minor Threat,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Neil Young,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Schoolly D,
The Count Five,
Television,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Unwound,
The Vogues,
Bad Manners,
The Fire Engines,
Sällskapet,
Blake Baxter,
Yazoo,
Prince Buster,
The Cure,
World's Most,
The Cramps,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Wings,
Black Flag,
Interpol,
Ralphi Rosario,
Sun Ra,
Parry Music,
Wasted Youth,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Funky Four + One,
Ten City,
The Dirtbombs,
Soul Sonic Force,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Minutemen,
Slick Rick,
Subhumans,
Radiohead,
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.