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 Kosovo and from Paris.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Harpers Bizarre to the electroclash kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo. All the underground hits.
All The Blues Magoos tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Zero Boys record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Groovy Waters,
Moby Grape,
Outsiders,
Quadrant,
Japan,
Robert Wyatt,
Danielle Patucci,
Crispy Ambulance,
Scientists,
Q and Not U,
The Alarm Clocks,
Absolute Body Control,
One Last Wish,
Godley & Creme,
The Pop Group,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Move,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Ultra Naté,
Rites of Spring,
Accadde A,
B.T. Express,
John Holt,
Rod Modell,
Mark Hollis,
Eve St. Jones,
Pussy Galore,
Kayak,
Sarah Menescal,
The Count Five,
ABC,
A Certain Ratio,
Scan 7,
AZ,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Motions,
The Real Kids,
Youth Brigade,
Mo-Dettes,
Lakeside,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Tropical Tobacco,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Tomorrow,
It's A Beautiful Day,
the Sonics,
Parry Music,
Todd Terry,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Durutti Column,
The Young Rascals,
Piero Umiliani,
The Smiths,
Hashim,
David Bowie,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Ultimate Spinach,
DJ Style,
Be Bop Deluxe, Be Bop Deluxe, Be Bop Deluxe, Be Bop Deluxe.
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.