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 New Zealand and from Houston.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Halifax.
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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the snare 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 The Mojo Men 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 Rufus Thomas. All the underground hits.
All Sparks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every K-Klass record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 snare and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Radio Birdman record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Technova,
The Residents,
AZ,
Hashim,
Outsiders,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Blake Baxter,
Metal Thangz,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Leaves,
Max Romeo,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Barry Ungar,
The Last Poets,
Youth Brigade,
ABC,
Man Parrish,
Kerrie Biddell,
Al Stewart,
Essential Logic,
Tim Buckley,
Nas,
Zero Boys,
Crash Course in Science,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
CMW,
Visage,
The Cure,
Easy Going,
The Music Machine,
Ten City,
The Martian,
Matthew Bourne,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Marshall Jefferson,
Echospace,
The Victims,
The Cramps,
Stetsasonic,
Motorama,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Zeros,
Cal Tjader,
The Dead C,
Derrick Morgan,
Byron Stingily,
Surgeon,
Pylon,
Negative Approach,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Electric Light Orchestra,
cv313,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Maleditus Sound,
Joey Negro,
Hardrive,
Franke,
Monolake,
JFA,
Television Personalities, Television Personalities, Television Personalities, Television Personalities.
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.