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 Uruguay and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Basic Channel to the punk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Bizarre Inc.. All the underground hits.
All Eric Dolphy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every 10cc record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an organ 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 marimba and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Star Department,
Trumans Water,
Black Bananas,
Ornette Coleman,
Wire,
David McCallum,
Howard Jones,
Carl Craig,
Drive Like Jehu,
Camberwell Now,
Banda Bassotti,
Flash Fearless,
Bobbi Humphrey,
PIL,
Section 25,
Avey Tare,
Rapeman,
Robert Görl,
Camouflage,
Scott Walker,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Golliwogs,
The Evens,
Janne Schatter,
Barrington Levy,
Magazine,
The Happenings,
Zapp,
Bobby Womack,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Pantytec,
Rakim,
Rosa Yemen,
Brick,
Zero Boys,
48th St. Collective,
Japan,
Lalann,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Saints,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Ronnie Foster,
Max Romeo,
Reuben Wilson,
Underground Resistance,
The Birthday Party,
Silicon Teens,
Wally Richardson,
Kas Product,
Intrusion,
The Real Kids,
Metal Thangz,
The Selecter,
Harmonia,
Can,
Vainqueur,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Moby Grape,
China Crisis,
Scientists,
One Last Wish,
Frankie Knuckles, Frankie Knuckles, Frankie Knuckles, Frankie Knuckles.
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.