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 Israel and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 theremin 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 Soft Machine to the techno 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 Simply Red. All the underground hits.
All Selector Dub Narcotic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Basic Channel record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a EPMD record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cecil Taylor,
Hoover,
Gregory Isaacs,
Iggy Pop,
The Five Americans,
Dawn Penn,
June of 44,
Public Enemy,
Peter and Kerry,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
James White and The Blacks,
Inner City,
The Shadows of Knight,
Pylon,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Walker Brothers,
Simply Red,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Kinks,
Fatback Band,
Kerri Chandler,
L. Decosne,
Babytalk,
In Retrospect,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Talk Talk,
Andrew Hill,
Todd Terry,
Anthony Braxton,
KRS-One,
Niagra,
Clear Light,
The Blues Magoos,
Heaven 17,
the Sonics,
The Gories,
Carl Craig,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Bootsy Collins,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Donny Hathaway,
ABC,
John Cale,
Sandy B,
Angry Samoans,
Eddi Front,
Robert Wyatt,
Scott Walker,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
A Certain Ratio,
Sugar Minott,
Infiniti,
Drive Like Jehu,
Delta 5,
Joy Division,
Isaac Hayes,
Nirvana,
Fad Gadget,
OOIOO,
Urselle,
Khruangbin,
MDC, MDC, MDC, MDC.
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.