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 Peru and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1983 at the first Bronski Beat practice in a loft in Brixton.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Joensuu 1685 to the rap 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 Neil Young. All the underground hits.
All OOIOO tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every X-102 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Deepchord record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Pierre Henry,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
LL Cool J,
Icehouse,
L. Decosne,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
the Soft Cell,
Lightning Bolt,
Rufus Thomas,
Patti Smith,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Public Image Ltd.,
Erykah Badu,
Nik Kershaw,
Ludus,
Marine Girls,
48th St. Collective,
the Sonics,
The Five Americans,
Interpol,
Davy DMX,
Lalo Schifrin,
Niagra,
Man Parrish,
The Gap Band,
Soul II Soul,
Kas Product,
Cheater Slicks,
Aural Exciters,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Cybotron,
Todd Rundgren,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Seeds,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Jimmy McGriff,
Silicon Teens,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Charles Mingus,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Trojans,
Harmonia,
The Stooges,
Lucky Dragons,
Jesper Dahlback,
Depeche Mode,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Roger Hodgson,
the Bar-Kays,
Sound Behaviour,
Jandek,
Sam Rivers,
Crime,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Underground Resistance,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
David McCallum,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog.
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.