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 Hungary and from Sao Paulo.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Bobby Hutcherson to the grunge 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 Lonnie Liston Smith. All the underground hits.
All Dual Sessions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron 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's Slasher Flicks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cecil Taylor,
Sällskapet,
Inner City,
Fort Wilson Riot,
EPMD,
Delta 5,
The American Breed,
PIL,
Scan 7,
Roger Hodgson,
Rotary Connection,
Essential Logic,
Max Romeo,
Arthur Verocai,
Sex Pistols,
Juan Atkins,
Barry Ungar,
Wally Richardson,
Throbbing Gristle,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Raincoats,
Donny Hathaway,
Supertramp,
The Doobie Brothers,
Theoretical Girls,
DJ Sneak,
Janne Schatter,
Aloha Tigers,
The Blackbyrds,
Magma,
Aaron Thompson,
T.S.O.L.,
Girls At Our Best!,
OOIOO,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Clear Light,
The Gap Band,
Panda Bear,
Pylon,
Roy Ayers,
Black Pus,
Bill Near,
Judy Mowatt,
The Velvet Underground,
Avey Tare,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Soft Cell,
Vainqueur,
Stiv Bators,
Royal Trux,
John Foxx,
One Last Wish,
Peter and Kerry,
DNA,
Bluetip,
Brick,
Ten City,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Mission of Burma,
The Detroit Cobras, The Detroit Cobras, The Detroit Cobras, The Detroit Cobras.
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.