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 Tajikistan and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle show in London.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 808 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 Camouflage 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 Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon. All the underground hits.
All Eden Ahbez tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Royal Trux record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 harpsichord and a spring reverb 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 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Boogie Down Productions,
Dennis Brown,
Archie Shepp,
Funky Four + One,
Fugazi,
Lee Hazlewood,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Ice-T,
La Düsseldorf,
Lou Christie,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Ludus,
Sexual Harrassment,
Sällskapet,
48th St. Collective,
The Cure,
Aaron Thompson,
Robert Wyatt,
Dual Sessions,
Rhythm & Sound,
Sam Rivers,
Robert Hood,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Amon Düül II,
Darondo,
Circle Jerks,
Roger Hodgson,
R.M.O.,
LL Cool J,
Bill Wells,
Quadrant,
Panda Bear,
Pagans,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Heaven 17,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Roxy Music,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Pretty Things,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Arab on Radar,
Drive Like Jehu,
Nirvana,
Pet Shop Boys,
Section 25,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
John Lydon,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
These Immortal Souls,
Pere Ubu,
The Motions,
Howard Jones,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Barracudas,
Eddi Front,
Wire,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Groovy Waters,
Outsiders,
Symarip,
Black Sheep,
Popol Vuh,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience.
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.