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 Nigeria and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Brick 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 Girls At Our Best!. All the underground hits.
All The Skatalites tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sonic Youth record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 synthesizer and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dennis Brown record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Toni Rubio,
Bob Dylan,
Sparks,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Nico,
Pussy Galore,
DJ Sneak,
Roxy Music,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Erasure,
Tom Boy,
Johnny Osbourne,
Franke,
Quadrant,
Alton Ellis,
The Sound,
Johnny Clarke,
Symarip,
The Moleskins,
The Cramps,
Dual Sessions,
Bobby Sherman,
the Swans,
Sight & Sound,
Robert Hood,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
UT,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Nation of Ulysses,
Shuggie Otis,
The Offenders,
New Age Steppers,
Gabor Szabo,
Bronski Beat,
T.S.O.L.,
Kurtis Blow,
Don Cherry,
The Real Kids,
Warsaw,
Mantronix,
Von Mondo,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Black Sheep,
Amazonics,
DJ Style,
Warren Ellis,
Charles Mingus,
Spoonie Gee,
10cc,
Hashim,
Pierre Henry,
Tears for Fears,
Funkadelic,
Public Image Ltd.,
Yusef Lateef,
X-101,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Crooked Eye,
Aaron Thompson,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal.
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.