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 the UAE and from Columbus.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Masters at Work to the grime 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 Nik Kershaw. All the underground hits.
All Terry Callier tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Echospace 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a theremin 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 rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker,
Isaac Hayes,
Sparks,
Grey Daturas,
Black Flag,
Soft Cell,
The Seeds,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Danielle Patucci,
the Swans,
Cameo,
Cecil Taylor,
Public Enemy,
Q and Not U,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
DJ Sneak,
Blancmange,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Sound Behaviour,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Erasure,
The Cowsills,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Kurtis Blow,
Kevin Saunderson,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Sight & Sound,
The Slackers,
Outsiders,
Rapeman,
Janne Schatter,
Negative Approach,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Fortunes,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Agitation Free,
The Fuzztones,
These Immortal Souls,
Oblivians,
The Invisible,
The Pretty Things,
Albert Ayler,
Liliput,
Das Ding,
Mission of Burma,
Spoonie Gee,
The Electric Prunes,
Warsaw,
X-102,
Fat Boys,
Aaron Thompson,
Fluxion,
The Residents,
The Real Kids,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Country Teasers,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Blossom Toes,
The Fall,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Crash Course in Science, Crash Course in Science, Crash Course in Science, Crash Course in Science.
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.