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 Ethiopia and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Scrapy to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Main Source. All the underground hits.
All Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every MDC record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a clarinet 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 organ and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Shuggie Otis,
Pet Shop Boys,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Sonny Sharrock,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Letta Mbulu,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Rufus Thomas,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Quantec,
Amon Düül II,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Monochrome Set,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Schoolly D,
The Pop Group,
Yaz,
The Leaves,
Todd Terry,
Kaleidoscope,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Anthony Braxton,
Traffic Nightmare,
Godley & Creme,
Minor Threat,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Darondo,
DNA,
Terry Callier,
The Red Krayola,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Arab on Radar,
Cal Tjader,
John Cale,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Kenny Larkin,
Kool Moe Dee,
Jerry's Kids,
The Fuzztones,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Busters,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Parry Music,
Peter and Kerry,
Max Romeo,
T. Rex,
Porter Ricks,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Faraquet,
The Seeds,
Tomorrow,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Pylon,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Audionom,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Gichy Dan,
Rotary Connection,
Byron Stingily,
Juan Atkins,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Skarface,
Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot.
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.