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 Turkey and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the theremin 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 Magma to the rap kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Minor Threat. All the underground hits.
All Wolf Eyes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every KRS-One 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a chamberlin 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 rhodes and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Leaves,
Robert Wyatt,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Freddie Wadling,
Grey Daturas,
ABBA,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Sister Nancy,
Arcadia,
Arthur Verocai,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Ten City,
Black Bananas,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Marcia Griffiths,
Godley & Creme,
Soft Machine,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Ponytail,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Yellowson,
Television Personalities,
FM Einheit,
The Real Kids,
Piero Umiliani,
Blossom Toes,
Nas,
Zapp,
Q and Not U,
Black Flag,
Joe Finger,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Graham Central Station,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Roxette,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Ossler,
Kayak,
Icehouse,
Young Marble Giants,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Sam Rivers,
Darondo,
Drexciya,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Essential Logic,
Pharoah Sanders,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Marc Almond,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Fall,
Derrick May,
Bill Near,
Dead Boys,
The United States of America,
The Mummies, The Mummies, The Mummies, The Mummies.
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.