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 the UAE and from Stockholm.
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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Fear to the jazz kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Cluster. All the underground hits.
All The Sound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every New York Dolls record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 marimba and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a World's Most record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Blake Baxter,
Roxy Music,
Lower 48,
Stetsasonic,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Nick Fraelich,
Desert Stars,
Alison Limerick,
Soft Machine,
JFA,
Pagans,
Blancmange,
Joensuu 1685,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Buzzcocks,
Mad Mike,
Derrick May,
Hot Snakes,
Joy Division,
Pylon,
Michelle Simonal,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Eve St. Jones,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Iggy Pop,
Bill Wells,
Swans,
Marine Girls,
Minutemen,
Gabor Szabo,
the Association,
Pierre Henry,
Pole,
Pantaleimon,
The Fortunes,
Sonic Youth,
Sonny Sharrock,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Slick Rick,
Pulsallama,
Section 25,
L. Decosne,
Blossom Toes,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Joey Negro,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Lightning Bolt,
The Pretty Things,
Barrington Levy,
B.T. Express,
The Music Machine,
OOIOO,
The Victims,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Bronski Beat,
Joe Finger,
Minnie Riperton,
Talk Talk,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band.
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.