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 Bahamas and from Milan.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Kool Moe Dee to the grunge kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 JFA. All the underground hits.
All Neil Young & Crazy Horse tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rufus Thomas record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a chamberlin 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 mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sarah Menescal,
The Five Americans,
Quadrant,
Qualms,
Mary Jane Girls,
Bill Near,
Sam Rivers,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Human League,
The Gories,
Bootsy Collins,
Ten City,
The Martian,
Soul Sonic Force,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Echospace,
Loose Ends,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Urselle,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Fall,
Pharoah Sanders,
Peter & Gordon,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Letta Mbulu,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Wake,
Flipper,
Fugazi,
Byron Stingily,
Eurythmics,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Modern Lovers,
Don Cherry,
The Mummies,
Subhumans,
Q65,
The Zeros,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Gang of Four,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Swell Maps,
Rosa Yemen,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Ultimate Spinach,
Dorothy Ashby,
Soulsonic Force,
Roxy Music,
Spoonie Gee,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Pulsallama,
Livin' Joy,
Deakin,
Hoover,
Ralphi Rosario,
Barclay James Harvest,
Suicide,
Gastr Del Sol,
Joy Division,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Cal Tjader,
Skaos, Skaos, Skaos, Skaos.
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.