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 Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the theremin 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 Flash Fearless to the punk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Y Pants. All the underground hits.
All the Soft Cell tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every EPMD record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Fatback Band,
Accadde A,
Curtis Mayfield,
Mantronix,
Delta 5,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Bill Wells,
John Lydon,
Minnie Riperton,
Fear,
Al Stewart,
Radio Birdman,
Anakelly,
Interpol,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Connie Case,
Brothers Johnson,
The Slits,
Unrelated Segments,
DJ Sneak,
Susan Cadogan,
Hasil Adkins,
Sunsets and Hearts,
the Soft Cell,
The Divine Comedy,
Harry Pussy,
Bobby Womack,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Howard Jones,
Urselle,
New Order,
The Cure,
Average White Band,
Tim Buckley,
Rekid,
Quantec,
Con Funk Shun,
Man Eating Sloth,
Danielle Patucci,
Saccharine Trust,
Moss Icon,
Lungfish,
Sugar Minott,
Au Pairs,
Minutemen,
the Fania All-Stars,
the Sonics,
Excepter,
Arcadia,
The Durutti Column,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Television Personalities,
Popol Vuh,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Index,
Boz Scaggs,
James White and The Blacks,
Boogie Down Productions,
Minor Threat,
Faraquet,
OOIOO, OOIOO, OOIOO, OOIOO.
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.