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 Italy and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 World's Most to the rock 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 Moss Icon. All the underground hits.
All Teenage Jesus and the Jerks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joy Division record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 oboe 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 sitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hasil Adkins,
The Walker Brothers,
The Cure,
Faraquet,
Nas,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Music Machine,
The Divine Comedy,
Danielle Patucci,
Scrapy,
Trumans Water,
The Pretty Things,
The Raincoats,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Absolute Body Control,
Marmalade,
Grey Daturas,
Au Pairs,
Peter & Gordon,
June Days,
Dave Gahan,
Kayak,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Rod Modell,
kango's stein massive,
Alice Coltrane,
Dawn Penn,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Magma,
Banda Bassotti,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Toni Rubio,
Lakeside,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Lucky Dragons,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Whodini,
Sound Behaviour,
Porter Ricks,
Barrington Levy,
Jimmy McGriff,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Rekid,
Alison Limerick,
Althea and Donna,
Can,
Agitation Free,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Moss Icon,
Lalo Schifrin,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Angry Samoans,
The Cowsills,
Soul II Soul,
Peter and Kerry,
Tommy Roe,
Make Up,
Sugar Minott,
Scratch Acid,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish.
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.