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 South Africa and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Jakarta.
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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
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 Cymande to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Crime. All the underground hits.
All Organ tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lakeside record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gregory Isaacs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nas,
Ronnie Foster,
Unrelated Segments,
Juan Atkins,
Charles Mingus,
Pet Shop Boys,
Radiopuhelimet,
Nirvana,
The Trojans,
Pantytec,
Maleditus Sound,
Ice-T,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Vladislav Delay,
Motorama,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Niagra,
Sonny Sharrock,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Black Moon,
Fatback Band,
EPMD,
Theoretical Girls,
Skaos,
Harry Pussy,
June Days,
Newcleus,
Visage,
La Düsseldorf,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Popol Vuh,
Dark Day,
Groovy Waters,
The Real Kids,
Danielle Patucci,
Albert Ayler,
Judy Mowatt,
Funkadelic,
Boz Scaggs,
The Smiths,
Rufus Thomas,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Bobby Womack,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Main Source,
Cameo,
Blake Baxter,
The Stooges,
MDC,
Chrome,
Desert Stars,
Lou Reed,
Moebius,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Walker Brothers,
Gerry Rafferty,
Terry Callier,
Robert Görl,
In Retrospect,
Fad Gadget,
Moby Grape,
Warsaw,
The Toasters, The Toasters, The Toasters, The Toasters.
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.