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 Algeria and from Taipei.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Black Flag to the dance 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 Faraquet. All the underground hits.
All Robert Wyatt tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scratch Acid record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a guitar 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 synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
James White and The Blacks,
Mandrill,
Pole,
Junior Murvin,
the Association,
Saccharine Trust,
The Smiths,
Reagan Youth,
Eric Copeland,
Silicon Teens,
The Moleskins,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Marshall Jefferson,
Radio Birdman,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Subhumans,
Gang Starr,
Altered Images,
Agent Orange,
Skarface,
Bauhaus,
Aloha Tigers,
Scientists,
Ohio Players,
Todd Rundgren,
Talk Talk,
Technova,
Piero Umiliani,
Johnny Clarke,
Don Cherry,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
New Order,
The Cure,
La Düsseldorf,
Intrusion,
Scott Walker,
June Days,
Depeche Mode,
Mo-Dettes,
Bronski Beat,
Al Stewart,
Wally Richardson,
Loose Ends,
JFA,
In Retrospect,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Black Pus,
Peter & Gordon,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Severed Heads,
Barrington Levy,
Main Source,
Bizarre Inc.,
Chrome,
Blancmange,
Joy Division,
Gichy Dan,
The Pretty Things,
Buzzcocks,
Parry Music,
Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection.
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.