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 Liberia and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Jerry's Kids to the grime kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Teenage Jesus and the Jerks. All the underground hits.
All Theoretical Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Godley & Creme record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jacob Miller record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dorothy Ashby,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Techniques,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Gang of Four,
Minny Pops,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Nas,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Carl Craig,
June Days,
Al Stewart,
Rakim,
Ken Boothe,
Jeff Mills,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Todd Rundgren,
Oneida,
Television,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Newcleus,
Barrington Levy,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Glambeats Corp.,
Supertramp,
Magma,
Sixth Finger,
Ornette Coleman,
Easy Going,
Unwound,
the Sonics,
Silicon Teens,
the Normal,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Fugs,
The New Christs,
Black Pus,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Red Krayola,
Babytalk,
Essential Logic,
Groovy Waters,
Patti Smith,
Basic Channel,
Radiohead,
Donny Hathaway,
Nico,
Dawn Penn,
Pharoah Sanders,
Faust,
Dennis Brown,
Inner City,
Mandrill,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Wally Richardson,
Jerry's Kids,
Eric B and Rakim,
Malaria!,
Judy Mowatt,
The Grass Roots,
Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection.
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.