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 Kuwait and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Sonics to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 The Music Machine. All the underground hits.
All Rotary Connection tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter & Gordon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 spring reverb and a synthesizer 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 snare and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Amon Düül II,
The Smoke,
FM Einheit,
Lee Hazlewood,
Byron Stingily,
Sister Nancy,
Banda Bassotti,
Parry Music,
New Order,
The Motions,
Rekid,
Quantec,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Minor Threat,
The Slackers,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Zeros,
The Victims,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Seeds,
Magazine,
Soft Cell,
Faraquet,
Niagra,
Eurythmics,
Massinfluence,
Visage,
Bronski Beat,
Livin' Joy,
Kas Product,
The Martian,
Josef K,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Barclay James Harvest,
Derrick May,
Lebanon Hanover,
Malaria!,
EPMD,
Surgeon,
Newcleus,
8 Eyed Spy,
Yaz,
Rites of Spring,
JFA,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Oblivians,
Skriet,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Heaven 17,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Carl Craig,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Smog,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
DJ Sneak,
The Young Rascals,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Nick Fraelich,
Laurel Aitken,
Idris Muhammad,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Ituana, Ituana, Ituana, Ituana.
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.