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 the UAE and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 Bronski Beat practice in a loft in Brixton.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Patti Smith to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Chrome. All the underground hits.
All Swell Maps tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Outsiders record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 mellotron and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Avey Tare record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kurtis Blow,
Adolescents,
the Sonics,
The Birthday Party,
Gerry Rafferty,
Average White Band,
Mars,
Bill Wells,
Hashim,
Tommy Roe,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Standells,
Boz Scaggs,
Quando Quango,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Organ,
Soft Machine,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Al Stewart,
Y Pants,
Ossler,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Fifty Foot Hose,
U.S. Maple,
Intrusion,
Scott Walker,
The Evens,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Zero Boys,
Suicide,
Gregory Isaacs,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Traffic Nightmare,
Anakelly,
Sixth Finger,
Ten City,
Rod Modell,
Jimmy McGriff,
John Coltrane,
R.M.O.,
Barbara Tucker,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Echospace,
Unrelated Segments,
Niagra,
The Mummies,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
JFA,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Minutemen,
Pylon,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Royal Trux,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
48th St. Collective,
Absolute Body Control,
Sonny Sharrock,
Sister Nancy,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Reagan Youth,
The Angels of Light,
DJ Sneak, DJ Sneak, DJ Sneak, DJ Sneak.
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.