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 Ukraine and from Paris.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the oboe 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 Jesus and Mary Chain to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Unrelated Segments. All the underground hits.
All Grey Daturas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sun City Girls record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 güiro and a rhodes 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 güiro and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marc Almond,
Accadde A,
Rosa Yemen,
Clear Light,
Pole,
Mission of Burma,
L. Decosne,
Cybotron,
The Fuzztones,
The Toasters,
Grauzone,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Rhythm & Sound,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Toni Rubio,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Silicon Teens,
Second Layer,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Das Ding,
Nik Kershaw,
Matthew Bourne,
Colin Newman,
U.S. Maple,
The Sonics,
Lyres,
DJ Sneak,
Qualms,
New Age Steppers,
the Sonics,
Saccharine Trust,
Delta 5,
Echospace,
Sugar Minott,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
ABC,
The Litter,
Theoretical Girls,
David McCallum,
Fear,
Schoolly D,
The Stooges,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Sex Pistols,
Sarah Menescal,
John Cale,
Eddi Front,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Rotary Connection,
Marine Girls,
Roxette,
E-Dancer,
Warsaw,
ABBA,
Ossler,
Graham Central Station,
Ituana,
Patti Smith,
Kenny Larkin,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Avey Tare, Avey Tare, Avey Tare, Avey Tare.
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.