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 Tuvalu and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 World's Most to the rap 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 Lakeside. All the underground hits.
All Lungfish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Heaven 17 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an arpeggiator 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 organ and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Young Marble Giants,
Swell Maps,
Jeff Lynne,
Black Sheep,
Scientists,
The Buckinghams,
ABC,
10cc,
Model 500,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Sound,
Main Source,
The Divine Comedy,
Oblivians,
Johnny Osbourne,
Davy DMX,
David Bowie,
Quantec,
The Beau Brummels,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Peter and Kerry,
The Toasters,
The Stooges,
Blake Baxter,
Magazine,
Newcleus,
Groovy Waters,
Throbbing Gristle,
Supertramp,
Man Eating Sloth,
UT,
In Retrospect,
Flash Fearless,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Tremeloes,
Index,
The Victims,
Fort Wilson Riot,
FM Einheit,
The Gun Club,
The Neon Judgement,
Aaron Thompson,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Negative Approach,
Franke,
Big Daddy Kane,
the Normal,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Radio Birdman,
Kerrie Biddell,
Fat Boys,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Chris & Cosey,
K-Klass,
a-ha,
DNA,
The Monochrome Set,
Country Teasers,
Erykah Badu,
Babytalk,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Donny Hathaway,
Guru Guru, Guru Guru, Guru Guru, Guru Guru.
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.