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 New Zealand and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Leaves to the punk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Crime. All the underground hits.
All John Coltrane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aswad 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a mellotron 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 organ and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Sonics,
The Velvet Underground,
Patti Smith,
Morten Harket,
Brick,
Audionom,
Main Source,
Television,
Blancmange,
Zapp,
R.M.O.,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Massinfluence,
Marcia Griffiths,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Vogues,
Soul Sonic Force,
Leonard Cohen,
Smog,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Gun Club,
Subhumans,
Cameo,
The Moody Blues,
Toni Rubio,
Derrick Morgan,
Barrington Levy,
Gastr Del Sol,
David Axelrod,
Kevin Saunderson,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Cluster,
Scratch Acid,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
CMW,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Michelle Simonal,
The Fall,
Basic Channel,
Chris Corsano,
Howard Jones,
Susan Cadogan,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Harmonia,
Spoonie Gee,
Duran Duran,
Negative Approach,
Todd Rundgren,
The Victims,
JFA,
Yaz,
Arcadia,
Schoolly D,
X-102,
Panda Bear,
Agitation Free,
Silicon Teens,
Masters at Work,
Anakelly,
Bush Tetras,
The Names,
The Red Krayola,
Black Sheep,
The Fugs, The Fugs, The Fugs, The Fugs.
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.