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 Guyana and from Glasgow.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the rhodes 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 R.M.O. to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Yazoo. All the underground hits.
All Moebius tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eric Dolphy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Cosmic Jokers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Black Bananas,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Offenders,
The Vogues,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Section 25,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Freddie Wadling,
Joyce Sims,
Zapp,
Nas,
Scientists,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Tomorrow,
The Black Dice,
Joey Negro,
The New Christs,
Alison Limerick,
Stereo Dub,
Prince Buster,
Roy Ayers,
Technova,
Sun City Girls,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Angels of Light,
Boogie Down Productions,
Morten Harket,
Blake Baxter,
Chris & Cosey,
Terry Callier,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Inner City,
The Grass Roots,
Black Flag,
The Fall,
The Zeros,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Thompson Twins,
R.M.O.,
Barrington Levy,
Tears for Fears,
Lee Hazlewood,
Severed Heads,
Tres Demented,
Pylon,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
OOIOO,
Pole,
Mantronix,
Ornette Coleman,
New Age Steppers,
Heaven 17,
Avey Tare,
Eric Dolphy,
Soft Cell,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Joy Division,
Alice Coltrane,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Dave Clark Five,
Byron Stingily,
The Cosmic Jokers, The Cosmic Jokers, The Cosmic Jokers, The Cosmic Jokers.
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.