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 Palau and from Accra.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the guitar 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 Pere Ubu to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Malaria!. All the underground hits.
All Can tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Barry Ungar record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a clarinet 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 chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nico,
The Martian,
Chris Corsano,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Sound Behaviour,
Rotary Connection,
Mantronix,
Jacob Miller,
Ultra Naté,
Eddi Front,
Second Layer,
Skaos,
Organ,
The Associates,
Simply Red,
Popol Vuh,
Andrew Hill,
CMW,
the Association,
The United States of America,
Lungfish,
Agitation Free,
Robert Görl,
Tomorrow,
Barrington Levy,
Metal Thangz,
The Blackbyrds,
Main Source,
Janne Schatter,
Bobby Sherman,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Dennis Brown,
Crispy Ambulance,
KRS-One,
Jawbox,
Eurythmics,
The Divine Comedy,
Derrick May,
The Skatalites,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Tears for Fears,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Marine Girls,
The Pop Group,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Johnny Osbourne,
Arthur Verocai,
Cheater Slicks,
The Trojans,
Mary Jane Girls,
Theoretical Girls,
Beasts of Bourbon,
cv313,
Grauzone,
Anakelly,
Marvin Gaye,
Mad Mike,
The Selecter,
Morten Harket,
H. Thieme,
48th St. Collective,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Nation of Ulysses, Nation of Ulysses, Nation of Ulysses, Nation of Ulysses.
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.