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 Fiji and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Tehran.
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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Scientists to the rock 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 Bauhaus. All the underground hits.
All Magazine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Newcleus 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar 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 & Kría Brekkan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Mighty Diamonds,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
The Mojo Men,
Bobby Sherman,
Jimmy McGriff,
Essential Logic,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Babytalk,
Joensuu 1685,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
X-102,
Chris Corsano,
Nation of Ulysses,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Fall,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Selecter,
Sixth Finger,
The Vogues,
Roy Ayers,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
the Slits,
The Dave Clark Five,
Erykah Badu,
the Association,
Tim Buckley,
Henry Cow,
Malaria!,
Lakeside,
The Fire Engines,
The Sonics,
Yazoo,
Alton Ellis,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
MDC,
DJ Sneak,
Bronski Beat,
Bizarre Inc.,
Piero Umiliani,
Radiopuhelimet,
Funky Four + One,
Outsiders,
Camouflage,
Toni Rubio,
T.S.O.L.,
The Dirtbombs,
Byron Stingily,
CMW,
Altered Images,
Adolescents,
The Fortunes,
Leonard Cohen,
Flipper,
Gang Green,
Junior Murvin,
Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown.
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.