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 Japan and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez 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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Beijing.
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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Jandek to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Liaisons Dangereuses. All the underground hits.
All Tropical Tobacco tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joy Division record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 rhodes and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a AZ record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Carl Craig,
Boz Scaggs,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Moleskins,
Lalann,
Aswad,
Bad Manners,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Soft Machine,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Alison Limerick,
Wings,
Cymande,
Das Ding,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Desert Stars,
Niagra,
Cecil Taylor,
Chris & Cosey,
K-Klass,
Lebanon Hanover,
Peter & Gordon,
Reagan Youth,
Flipper,
Stockholm Monsters,
New Order,
The Toasters,
Eddi Front,
The Five Americans,
Funky Four + One,
Hasil Adkins,
The Beau Brummels,
ABBA,
This Heat,
Glenn Branca,
The Velvet Underground,
E-Dancer,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Sisters of Mercy,
China Crisis,
Radio Birdman,
Jerry's Kids,
Jacques Brel,
Robert Wyatt,
Maleditus Sound,
The Pretty Things,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Jeru the Damaja,
Television Personalities,
Bizarre Inc.,
JFA,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Associates,
Tom Boy,
Saccharine Trust,
Talk Talk,
CMW,
Blancmange,
Bush Tetras,
the Fania All-Stars,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Electric Prunes, The Electric Prunes, The Electric Prunes, The Electric Prunes.
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.