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 Ivory Coast and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Ludus to the techno 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 The Standells. All the underground hits.
All ABC tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Mojo Men 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an oboe 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 oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
JFA,
Smog,
Kaleidoscope,
Fad Gadget,
Nick Fraelich,
The Smiths,
Maurizio,
Marcia Griffiths,
Symarip,
Gerry Rafferty,
Roy Ayers,
Warren Ellis,
Brand Nubian,
Joy Division,
The Skatalites,
Bush Tetras,
Pussy Galore,
Chris & Cosey,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
the Human League,
Skaos,
Television,
The Moleskins,
CMW,
Blake Baxter,
The Angels of Light,
Metal Thangz,
Dave Gahan,
Bill Wells,
Boredoms,
Amon Düül II,
Inner City,
Soft Cell,
Frankie Knuckles,
Black Flag,
Pole,
Davy DMX,
Scientists,
Lightning Bolt,
Von Mondo,
Bluetip,
Tears for Fears,
Yusef Lateef,
Peter & Gordon,
Tommy Roe,
Q65,
The Dead C,
Todd Rundgren,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Swell Maps,
Piero Umiliani,
Rotary Connection,
The Cowsills,
Nirvana,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Curtis Mayfield,
Ossler,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Bootsy Collins, Bootsy Collins, Bootsy Collins, Bootsy Collins.
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.