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 Marshall Islands and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Shuggie Otis to the crunk 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 Accadde A. All the underground hits.
All Negative Approach tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Selecter record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 guitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Agitation Free,
Newcleus,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
R.M.O.,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Flamin' Groovies,
The Raincoats,
Deepchord,
Hot Snakes,
Scrapy,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Jandek,
The Move,
Minnie Riperton,
Curtis Mayfield,
Robert Hood,
Colin Newman,
Subhumans,
Skaos,
The Doobie Brothers,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Scratch Acid,
Babytalk,
Donny Hathaway,
Althea and Donna,
Pet Shop Boys,
Wire,
Scott Walker,
Roxy Music,
Model 500,
David Axelrod,
Marc Almond,
Massinfluence,
Camberwell Now,
Fear,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Barbara Tucker,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Blake Baxter,
Rapeman,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Rod Modell,
The Mojo Men,
Idris Muhammad,
Deakin,
Trumans Water,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Country Teasers,
The Flesh Eaters,
Darondo,
Vainqueur,
Drexciya,
Steve Hackett,
The Gun Club,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Last Poets,
Maurizio,
Malaria!,
Hashim,
Jacques Brel,
Stockholm Monsters, Stockholm Monsters, Stockholm Monsters, Stockholm Monsters.
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.