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 Uruguay and from Manchester.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Fugazi to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Soft Machine. All the underground hits.
All Model 500 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every In Retrospect 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Avey Tare record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Skaos,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Tres Demented,
the Slits,
The Count Five,
Crispy Ambulance,
Radiohead,
Loose Ends,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Shoche,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Joy Division,
The Zeros,
Michelle Simonal,
Silicon Teens,
Sonny Sharrock,
Altered Images,
Moebius,
New Age Steppers,
Aaron Thompson,
The Residents,
Bootsy Collins,
Saccharine Trust,
The Tremeloes,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Sparks,
Bill Near,
Harpers Bizarre,
Severed Heads,
Skarface,
Yazoo,
H. Thieme,
The Fuzztones,
Tomorrow,
The Leaves,
Ludus,
kango's stein massive,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Deakin,
Ponytail,
Kayak,
The Evens,
cv313,
The Offenders,
Junior Murvin,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Lee Hazlewood,
Robert Hood,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
John Lydon,
Jeff Lynne,
Ornette Coleman,
Nation of Ulysses,
Motorama,
The Velvet Underground,
The Fortunes,
Sällskapet, Sällskapet, Sällskapet, Sällskapet.
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.