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 Germany and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Bronski Beat show in Brixton.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the grime 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 Heavy D & The Boyz. All the underground hits.
All Neu! tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Star Department record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a theremin 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 guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alice Coltrane,
Dual Sessions,
Cheater Slicks,
Moebius,
Stereo Dub,
Neil Young,
Arcadia,
Flash Fearless,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Red Krayola,
The American Breed,
The Young Rascals,
Marine Girls,
John Coltrane,
Amon Düül II,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Minnie Riperton,
Groovy Waters,
Clear Light,
Todd Terry,
Bill Wells,
Infiniti,
Hot Snakes,
Joyce Sims,
R.M.O.,
Brick,
Essential Logic,
the Association,
D'Angelo,
Khruangbin,
Harmonia,
The Cure,
Lindisfarne,
Pole,
Arthur Verocai,
Eric Dolphy,
Technova,
The Stooges,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Kool Moe Dee,
Nils Olav,
Wings,
The Names,
10cc,
Index,
The Smiths,
Deadbeat,
The Seeds,
Eric B and Rakim,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Scion,
Sound Behaviour,
Sarah Menescal,
Dave Gahan,
Janne Schatter,
Second Layer,
X-Ray Spex,
The Zeros,
X-102,
The Gap Band, The Gap Band, The Gap Band, The Gap Band.
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.