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 Bangladesh and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 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 a-ha to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Chocolate Watch Band. All the underground hits.
All Skaos tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Doobie Brothers 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare 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 & Kría Brekkan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ohio Players,
Rotary Connection,
The Fall,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Velvet Underground,
Robert Hood,
Gichy Dan,
Average White Band,
Lebanon Hanover,
Bang On A Can,
Tim Buckley,
Hasil Adkins,
Ornette Coleman,
MDC,
Kool Moe Dee,
June of 44,
the Human League,
The Evens,
Derrick Morgan,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
John Foxx,
the Sonics,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Porter Ricks,
James White and The Blacks,
Cybotron,
Von Mondo,
Lee Hazlewood,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Bad Manners,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Boz Scaggs,
Oneida,
Matthew Bourne,
Royal Trux,
The Doobie Brothers,
Minutemen,
Lakeside,
Intrusion,
Public Image Ltd.,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Massinfluence,
Nico,
Quadrant,
Liliput,
Amon Düül II,
Oblivians,
Absolute Body Control,
Vladislav Delay,
Sam Rivers,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Godley & Creme,
Sandy B,
Organ,
A Certain Ratio,
One Last Wish,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
a-ha,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Gang Gang Dance,
Agitation Free,
Quando Quango,
Sun Ra,
Mad Mike, Mad Mike, Mad Mike, Mad Mike.
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.