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 Croatia and from Manila.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Glasgow.
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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Metal Thangz 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 DeepChord presents Echospace. All the underground hits.
All Josef K tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gabor Szabo 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a sitar 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 snare and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Isaac Hayes,
Donny Hathaway,
Dual Sessions,
Zapp,
cv313,
Leonard Cohen,
Black Sheep,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Modern Lovers,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Anakelly,
Kerri Chandler,
Crime,
The Zeros,
Gang Green,
The Moody Blues,
EPMD,
Gong,
Graham Central Station,
Anthony Braxton,
David Axelrod,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Japan,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Roger Hodgson,
Country Teasers,
Agitation Free,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Pet Shop Boys,
Minnie Riperton,
John Holt,
Swell Maps,
Section 25,
Smog,
the Normal,
Susan Cadogan,
Curtis Mayfield,
Mission of Burma,
Sonny Sharrock,
Ossler,
Piero Umiliani,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Chrome,
U.S. Maple,
Minny Pops,
Black Pus,
Todd Terry,
Girls At Our Best!,
Arthur Verocai,
The Young Rascals,
Model 500,
Beasts of Bourbon,
X-101,
Bill Wells,
The Mojo Men,
Slick Rick,
James White and The Blacks,
The Martian,
the Germs,
The Blackbyrds,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Hoover,
The Fortunes,
Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd..
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.