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 Thailand and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
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 Maurizio to the punk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Panda Bear. All the underground hits.
All Roxette tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every World's Most record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a clarinet 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 oboe and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
cv313,
Ultimate Spinach,
Barclay James Harvest,
Das Ding,
Avey Tare,
Scientists,
Minor Threat,
This Heat,
Gang Gang Dance,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Altered Images,
Robert Wyatt,
The Saints,
Oblivians,
Lyres,
The Blackbyrds,
Skriet,
John Cale,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Outsiders,
Black Moon,
Talk Talk,
Nirvana,
Yellowson,
X-101,
Model 500,
Stiv Bators,
Accadde A,
Tim Buckley,
Pantaleimon,
B.T. Express,
Franke,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Sonic Youth,
Public Image Ltd.,
Simply Red,
Joey Negro,
The Human League,
Derrick May,
Hashim,
The Misunderstood,
Mr. Review,
Kas Product,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Shadows of Knight,
Mandrill,
Basic Channel,
Marvin Gaye,
Chrome,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Thompson Twins,
The Index,
The Kinks,
The Moleskins,
Glenn Branca,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Crispian St. Peters,
Gang Green,
Patti Smith,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo.
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.