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 Turkey and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Wally Richardson to the punk 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 Sällskapet. All the underground hits.
All Hot Snakes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DJ Style record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a snare 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 synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Crash Course in Science,
Basic Channel,
Marc Almond,
Popol Vuh,
The Skatalites,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Joensuu 1685,
Dorothy Ashby,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The United States of America,
AZ,
Joey Negro,
Skarface,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Slick Rick,
Howard Jones,
Pylon,
Skriet,
Sonic Youth,
The Doors,
Camberwell Now,
Eli Mardock,
Fluxion,
Scientists,
Bizarre Inc.,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
John Foxx,
The Names,
Reuben Wilson,
David Axelrod,
The Happenings,
Rufus Thomas,
Wings,
Q65,
Moebius,
Television Personalities,
Tres Demented,
Matthew Bourne,
Patti Smith,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Gabor Szabo,
Traffic Nightmare,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Sun Ra,
Nils Olav,
La Düsseldorf,
Byron Stingily,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Todd Rundgren,
Pierre Henry,
Erykah Badu,
Faust,
Eric Dolphy,
Michelle Simonal,
Pet Shop Boys,
Infiniti,
Ornette Coleman,
Cameo,
Television,
Agitation Free,
Jimmy McGriff,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Laurel Aitken,
Saccharine Trust,
Radiohead, Radiohead, Radiohead, Radiohead.
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.