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 Malta and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 The Monochrome Set to the punk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Cameo. All the underground hits.
All Grandmaster Flash tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Zeros record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Sonics record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Man Eating Sloth,
Danielle Patucci,
Mark Hollis,
Robert Hood,
The Walker Brothers,
Los Fastidios,
Babytalk,
Franke,
Brass Construction,
Goldenarms,
Con Funk Shun,
Ronnie Foster,
Ituana,
Donny Hathaway,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Barbara Tucker,
Fear,
Intrusion,
Graham Central Station,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
New Order,
Adolescents,
Drive Like Jehu,
Cecil Taylor,
Funky Four + One,
Eli Mardock,
Buzzcocks,
ABC,
The Residents,
Aswad,
8 Eyed Spy,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Grandmaster Flash,
Barrington Levy,
Ten City,
Eric B and Rakim,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Fugazi,
Jeff Lynne,
The Red Krayola,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Pantaleimon,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Faraquet,
Magma,
Bill Wells,
Radiohead,
Theoretical Girls,
Symarip,
Tomorrow,
Al Stewart,
Japan,
Scrapy,
Rapeman,
Porter Ricks,
The New Christs,
The American Breed,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Outsiders, Outsiders, Outsiders, Outsiders.
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.