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 Czech Republic and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the organ 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 Circle Jerks to the funk 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 Alphaville. All the underground hits.
All ABC tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every China Crisis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an organ 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 theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Walker Brothers,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Gerry Rafferty,
Faraquet,
Kas Product,
Subhumans,
Black Bananas,
Lungfish,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Martian,
Arcadia,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Shoche,
Robert Görl,
Lou Christie,
Dual Sessions,
Roger Hodgson,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Yusef Lateef,
Audionom,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Letta Mbulu,
Aloha Tigers,
Flash Fearless,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Pierre Henry,
Graham Central Station,
Joey Negro,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Cure,
The Monochrome Set,
Joensuu 1685,
DNA,
Byron Stingily,
Kaleidoscope,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
DJ Sneak,
Wally Richardson,
Ice-T,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Barbara Tucker,
The Move,
Alphaville,
Blake Baxter,
EPMD,
The Saints,
Girls At Our Best!,
Pagans,
the Sonics,
Adolescents,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
John Holt,
Lou Reed,
A Certain Ratio,
Bush Tetras,
Oblivians,
The Velvet Underground,
Ohio Players,
Trumans Water,
ABC,
Sight & Sound,
James Chance & The Contortions, James Chance & The Contortions, James Chance & The Contortions, James Chance & The Contortions.
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.