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 Somalia and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the guitar 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 AZ to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Guru Guru. All the underground hits.
All Alton Ellis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 a rhodes and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Chris Corsano,
The Electric Prunes,
The Wake,
Todd Terry,
The Moleskins,
Curtis Mayfield,
Bauhaus,
Vainqueur,
Yellowson,
The Smiths,
Tropical Tobacco,
Yazoo,
X-Ray Spex,
Gang Green,
Wings,
Anthony Braxton,
Aswad,
Drexciya,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Selecter,
Sam Rivers,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Peter & Gordon,
Sonic Youth,
Max Romeo,
Kerri Chandler,
La Düsseldorf,
Masters at Work,
Bill Wells,
T.S.O.L.,
Harpers Bizarre,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Funkadelic,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
UT,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Minnie Riperton,
Pharoah Sanders,
Nik Kershaw,
Robert Görl,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Beau Brummels,
The Offenders,
Warsaw,
Idris Muhammad,
The Last Poets,
Drive Like Jehu,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Agitation Free,
Cluster,
Marc Almond,
Rekid,
Danielle Patucci,
Liliput,
Franke,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Blake Baxter,
Kerrie Biddell,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse.
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.