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 Zimbabwe and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the oboe 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 Scratch Acid to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Arthur Verocai. All the underground hits.
All Jeff Mills tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Malaria! record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 güiro and a rhodes 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?
Technova,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Knickerbockers,
T.S.O.L.,
This Heat,
Lalann,
The Sonics,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Young Marble Giants,
The Fall,
Lee Hazlewood,
Skaos,
The United States of America,
Lakeside,
Public Enemy,
Barrington Levy,
Moebius,
Albert Ayler,
Sandy B,
Vainqueur,
Lou Christie,
Roxette,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Black Moon,
EPMD,
Fluxion,
Davy DMX,
The Kinks,
Monolake,
One Last Wish,
MDC,
The Modern Lovers,
ABBA,
Faraquet,
Lalo Schifrin,
Pierre Henry,
Big Daddy Kane,
Youth Brigade,
Grandmaster Flash,
Japan,
New York Dolls,
Neu!,
the Association,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Jerry's Kids,
Ronnie Foster,
U.S. Maple,
The Cowsills,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Juan Atkins,
Television,
Fugazi,
The Standells,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Khruangbin,
The Cramps,
Moss Icon,
Second Layer,
CMW,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.