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 Lithuania and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Radio Birdman to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 This Heat. All the underground hits.
All Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Supertramp record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 linndrum and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Avey Tare record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Trumans Water,
Avey Tare,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Fad Gadget,
Boogie Down Productions,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Howard Jones,
Eric Copeland,
World's Most,
Minor Threat,
New York Dolls,
The Sound,
Cymande,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Intrusion,
Supertramp,
Janne Schatter,
Shuggie Otis,
Jimmy McGriff,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Idris Muhammad,
Kevin Saunderson,
Susan Cadogan,
Donny Hathaway,
Kayak,
Outsiders,
The Music Machine,
Cameo,
Faraquet,
Slave,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Joey Negro,
kango's stein massive,
Con Funk Shun,
Soft Cell,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Associates,
Deakin,
The Happenings,
Blancmange,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Tears for Fears,
Monks,
the Soft Cell,
Al Stewart,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Kurtis Blow,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Leaves,
Little Man,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Deadbeat,
Boz Scaggs,
Patti Smith,
The Doors,
Silicon Teens,
LL Cool J,
Flash Fearless,
Drexciya,
Blossom Toes,
Altered Images, Altered Images, Altered Images, Altered Images.
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.