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 Belarus and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Skarface to the grime 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 Lindisfarne. All the underground hits.
All Terrestrial Tones tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Heaven 17 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin 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 spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ornette Coleman,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Chris & Cosey,
Scrapy,
China Crisis,
The Walker Brothers,
Gregory Isaacs,
Alice Coltrane,
Godley & Creme,
Ralphi Rosario,
Index,
Unrelated Segments,
The Modern Lovers,
Alton Ellis,
The Victims,
Motorama,
Peter & Gordon,
The Black Dice,
Moss Icon,
Bootsy Collins,
Intrusion,
Bobbi Humphrey,
New York Dolls,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Associates,
Fear,
Gerry Rafferty,
Jandek,
The Trojans,
The Sonics,
Silicon Teens,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Quantec,
Cecil Taylor,
Model 500,
The Monochrome Set,
Boogie Down Productions,
Jeru the Damaja,
Wasted Youth,
Can,
Country Teasers,
Terrestrial Tones,
Monolake,
Trumans Water,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Shadows of Knight,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
the Germs,
Bronski Beat,
Blancmange,
The Standells,
Thee Headcoats,
Groovy Waters,
Mr. Review,
Franke,
Basic Channel,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Easy Going,
Michelle Simonal,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Misunderstood,
X-101,
The Litter, The Litter, The Litter, The Litter.
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.