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 Dominican Republic and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the guitar 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 the Human League to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Ash Ra Tempel. All the underground hits.
All Television Personalities tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Blues Magoos 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a spring reverb 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 spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Blackbyrds,
Lindisfarne,
Glenn Branca,
X-101,
Stereo Dub,
The Pop Group,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Khruangbin,
Camberwell Now,
Masters at Work,
Kayak,
Absolute Body Control,
Infiniti,
Amazonics,
Talk Talk,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Mission of Burma,
Robert Hood,
Schoolly D,
Gregory Isaacs,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The United States of America,
AZ,
The Pretty Things,
Icehouse,
Sun Ra,
The Techniques,
Brass Construction,
Tim Buckley,
Surgeon,
Lightning Bolt,
The Saints,
Easy Going,
Alison Limerick,
The Residents,
Hashim,
The Cure,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Rapeman,
Bill Near,
Boogie Down Productions,
Bush Tetras,
Jimmy McGriff,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Golliwogs,
Maurizio,
The Count Five,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Motions,
Flash Fearless,
Roy Ayers,
Donald Byrd,
Q and Not U,
Nik Kershaw,
Shuggie Otis,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Bootsy Collins,
Derrick Morgan,
Mantronix,
Liaisons Dangereuses, Liaisons Dangereuses, Liaisons Dangereuses, Liaisons Dangereuses.
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.