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 Tunisia and from Mumbai.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Jakarta.
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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the snare 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 Gong to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Flamin' Groovies. All the underground hits.
All Technova tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Arcadia record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a chamberlin 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 spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Spoonie Gee,
Average White Band,
The Sonics,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Tubeway Army,
Todd Terry,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Essential Logic,
DJ Sneak,
Swell Maps,
Tomorrow,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Skatalites,
Rufus Thomas,
Jerry's Kids,
Lungfish,
Andrew Hill,
Charles Mingus,
48th St. Collective,
CMW,
Eve St. Jones,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Desert Stars,
The Star Department,
Camberwell Now,
The Standells,
Boredoms,
Kayak,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Ohio Players,
Mo-Dettes,
Nas,
The Fire Engines,
Leonard Cohen,
Davy DMX,
Chris & Cosey,
Kool Moe Dee,
Model 500,
FM Einheit,
10cc,
Terry Callier,
Deepchord,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Jimmy McGriff,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
One Last Wish,
Clear Light,
Kevin Saunderson,
Ultravox,
Flipper,
Black Sheep,
Lee Hazlewood,
Bobby Hutcherson,
John Lydon,
Toni Rubio,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Bizarre Inc.,
Cybotron,
Monks,
Stetsasonic, Stetsasonic, Stetsasonic, Stetsasonic.
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.