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 Niger and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 marimba 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 the Association to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Fear. All the underground hits.
All CMW tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tears for Fears record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin 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 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kaleidoscope,
Faust,
The Modern Lovers,
Visage,
The Standells,
The Litter,
Boredoms,
Sun City Girls,
Section 25,
The Music Machine,
Skarface,
FM Einheit,
The Stooges,
Junior Murvin,
The Grass Roots,
James White and The Blacks,
Kerrie Biddell,
Eurythmics,
Dawn Penn,
New Age Steppers,
Yazoo,
Flipper,
Minutemen,
Cal Tjader,
Theoretical Girls,
Soul II Soul,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Crispian St. Peters,
DJ Sneak,
Funky Four + One,
Chris & Cosey,
Circle Jerks,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Invisible,
Sonny Sharrock,
Tim Buckley,
The Fortunes,
John Cale,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Young Rascals,
Black Flag,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Smiths,
Scan 7,
Erykah Badu,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Fatback Band,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Connie Case,
The Selecter,
Vainqueur,
Flash Fearless,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Jeff Mills,
June of 44,
The Gun Club,
Nico,
Skaos,
The Dead C,
Joyce Sims, Joyce Sims, Joyce Sims, Joyce Sims.
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.