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 Canada and from Johannesburg.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Sao Paulo.
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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 John Foxx to the disco 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 Neil Young. All the underground hits.
All The Chocolate Watch Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hashim 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a chamberlin 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 guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hot Snakes,
Graham Central Station,
Lungfish,
Spoonie Gee,
Magma,
Minor Threat,
Thee Headcoats,
Idris Muhammad,
Rotary Connection,
Sonic Youth,
Fela Kuti,
Outsiders,
Gregory Isaacs,
Negative Approach,
Albert Ayler,
Henry Cow,
cv313,
Excepter,
Deadbeat,
Joe Finger,
Aloha Tigers,
The Smoke,
Alison Limerick,
Trumans Water,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Alphaville,
New York Dolls,
The Grass Roots,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Kevin Saunderson,
Pussy Galore,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Gong,
Amon Düül,
the Human League,
Boogie Down Productions,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Kool Moe Dee,
Harpers Bizarre,
JFA,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
June of 44,
OOIOO,
Funky Four + One,
The Victims,
The New Christs,
Wally Richardson,
Fad Gadget,
Alice Coltrane,
Letta Mbulu,
Dawn Penn,
Ken Boothe,
Brothers Johnson,
Shuggie Otis,
Slave,
Tom Boy,
Main Source,
Japan,
The Young Rascals,
the Sonics,
La Düsseldorf,
Anakelly,
Yusef Lateef, Yusef Lateef, Yusef Lateef, Yusef Lateef.
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.