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 El Salvador and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Wings to the grunge 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 Tim Buckley. All the underground hits.
All Neu! tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every James Chance & The Contortions 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a spring reverb 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 spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Delon & Dalcan,
Procol Harum,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Lakeside,
Roger Hodgson,
Godley & Creme,
June of 44,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Joe Smooth,
The Associates,
The Human League,
Fela Kuti,
John Coltrane,
The Sonics,
Make Up,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Moebius,
Black Moon,
Rosa Yemen,
Isaac Hayes,
Negative Approach,
Lou Reed,
Henry Cow,
Radio Birdman,
Siglo XX,
Babytalk,
Marmalade,
Jimmy McGriff,
Danielle Patucci,
Joy Division,
The Busters,
Pierre Henry,
Trumans Water,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Essential Logic,
The Residents,
Ronan,
The Pretty Things,
Whodini,
Letta Mbulu,
the Association,
Scrapy,
The Dave Clark Five,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Neon Judgement,
The Happenings,
Reagan Youth,
The Fortunes,
Alton Ellis,
Animal Collective,
Curtis Mayfield,
a-ha,
This Heat,
Rapeman,
Khruangbin,
Brass Construction,
Kenny Larkin,
Saccharine Trust, Saccharine Trust, Saccharine Trust, Saccharine Trust.
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.