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 Ukraine and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Camberwell Now to the techno 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 Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth. All the underground hits.
All Gian Franco Pienzio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Loose Ends record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a linndrum 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 marimba and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cal Tjader,
Loose Ends,
The Toasters,
E-Dancer,
Dennis Brown,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Ituana,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Joey Negro,
The Gladiators,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Johnny Osbourne,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Curtis Mayfield,
Gastr Del Sol,
L. Decosne,
Todd Rundgren,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Fall,
Joe Smooth,
Talk Talk,
Motorama,
Albert Ayler,
The Zeros,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Gories,
Colin Newman,
the Association,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Pylon,
Simply Red,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
David McCallum,
ABBA,
Ultimate Spinach,
Big Daddy Kane,
Roxy Music,
Judy Mowatt,
Au Pairs,
Minor Threat,
Derrick May,
Henry Cow,
Con Funk Shun,
Eric Dolphy,
New York Dolls,
Shoche,
Lalann,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Dead Boys,
Harpers Bizarre,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Radio Birdman,
Eve St. Jones,
Iggy Pop,
Ultravox,
Eric B and Rakim,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Tomorrow,
Popol Vuh,
Magma,
Suicide, Suicide, Suicide, Suicide.
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.