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 Eritrea and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the mellotron 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 DJ Style to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Tim Buckley. All the underground hits.
All Jawbox tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Notorious Big And Bone Thugs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 an organ and a güiro 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 clarinet and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Young Marble Giants,
Groovy Waters,
Dual Sessions,
Jeru the Damaja,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Sonny Sharrock,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Minny Pops,
Frankie Knuckles,
Mission of Burma,
Black Bananas,
Sound Behaviour,
Flipper,
Can,
Faust,
The Pop Group,
Camouflage,
Massinfluence,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The New Christs,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Electric Prunes,
The Blues Magoos,
Kurtis Blow,
Letta Mbulu,
The Names,
Urselle,
Livin' Joy,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Alarm Clocks,
Lebanon Hanover,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Inner City,
Guru Guru,
Technova,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Ice-T,
Japan,
The Kinks,
Delta 5,
Y Pants,
Monolake,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Prince Buster,
B.T. Express,
Mo-Dettes,
Motorama,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Robert Wyatt,
Scratch Acid,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Thompson Twins,
The Cure,
Roxy Music,
Brass Construction,
Sam Rivers,
Smog,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Mark Hollis,
PIL, PIL, PIL, PIL.
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.