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 Nigeria and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Manila.
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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 John Coltrane to the rap kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Sexual Harrassment. All the underground hits.
All Shoche tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kayak record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe 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 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scrapy,
The Cramps,
The Gladiators,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Cymande,
Drexciya,
Echospace,
a-ha,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Negative Approach,
Dave Gahan,
Funkadelic,
The Martian,
Alphaville,
Delta 5,
Peter & Gordon,
Dawn Penn,
Ash Ra Tempel,
B.T. Express,
Chris Corsano,
Cal Tjader,
Skarface,
Rites of Spring,
Silicon Teens,
New Age Steppers,
Slave,
Swell Maps,
The Cowsills,
the Germs,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Crispy Ambulance,
Youth Brigade,
Bluetip,
The American Breed,
Ultravox,
Radiopuhelimet,
Masters at Work,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Quadrant,
Moss Icon,
Visage,
Harry Pussy,
Aural Exciters,
Amazonics,
The Smoke,
ABC,
Derrick May,
The Busters,
Liliput,
Soft Machine,
MC5,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Eli Mardock,
Susan Cadogan,
Malaria!,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Neu!,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Tommy Roe,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Grass Roots,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Sam Rivers, Sam Rivers, Sam Rivers, Sam Rivers.
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.