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 Uganda and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Milan.
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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Adolescents to the grunge 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 Deadbeat. All the underground hits.
All Peter & Gordon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every June of 44 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marine Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Derrick Morgan,
The Litter,
The Invisible,
Dennis Brown,
Andrew Hill,
Jeff Lynne,
Gichy Dan,
The Kinks,
Altered Images,
Cybotron,
John Cale,
The Buckinghams,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Gregory Isaacs,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Unwound,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Essential Logic,
The Shadows of Knight,
Duran Duran,
Scion,
Wally Richardson,
Hot Snakes,
Arab on Radar,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Victims,
Ludus,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Cal Tjader,
Gastr Del Sol,
Barbara Tucker,
Eddi Front,
The Fuzztones,
Rekid,
Matthew Bourne,
Junior Murvin,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Searchers,
Pagans,
Organ,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Ken Boothe,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
the Fania All-Stars,
Black Moon,
Camouflage,
Danielle Patucci,
Harpers Bizarre,
Rapeman,
Bad Manners,
The Count Five,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Hasil Adkins,
Maurizio,
Jerry's Kids,
Boogie Down Productions,
Make Up,
Y Pants,
Main Source,
Skriet,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Vainqueur,
Mars,
Ash Ra Tempel, Ash Ra Tempel, Ash Ra Tempel, Ash Ra Tempel.
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.