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 Hungary and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 The Fire Engines to the grunge kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Alphaville. All the underground hits.
All Y Pants tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pierre Henry 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sly & The Family Stone,
Idris Muhammad,
Avey Tare,
Banda Bassotti,
Eddi Front,
Al Stewart,
New York Dolls,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Suburban Knight,
Massinfluence,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Offenders,
Jandek,
China Crisis,
Moss Icon,
Nik Kershaw,
Rod Modell,
Piero Umiliani,
Sun Ra,
Rufus Thomas,
Livin' Joy,
Jeff Mills,
Black Moon,
John Cale,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
World's Most,
Simply Red,
Los Fastidios,
Tim Buckley,
Bill Wells,
Silicon Teens,
Wolf Eyes,
Don Cherry,
The Dead C,
Electric Prunes,
UT,
The Pretty Things,
Mo-Dettes,
Blossom Toes,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Aaron Thompson,
Swell Maps,
Pierre Henry,
Freddie Wadling,
Terry Callier,
Das Ding,
Wire,
Yusef Lateef,
Mission of Burma,
the Swans,
the Germs,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Soulsonic Force,
cv313,
Pharoah Sanders,
Derrick May,
Masters at Work,
Y Pants,
The Kinks,
The Gories,
Nirvana,
Howard Jones,
X-101, X-101, X-101, X-101.
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.