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 Colombia and from Delhi.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 Alison Limerick to the rap kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Pierre Henry. All the underground hits.
All Bootsy Collins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Unrelated Segments record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vaughan Mason & Crew record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Rosa Yemen,
Ornette Coleman,
Neu!,
MC5,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Agitation Free,
D'Angelo,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Pylon,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Leaves,
Roxette,
Harmonia,
The Doobie Brothers,
Delon & Dalcan,
Jeru the Damaja,
Ponytail,
Alphaville,
Steve Hackett,
Quando Quango,
Delta 5,
Livin' Joy,
Kevin Saunderson,
Funky Four + One,
The Detroit Cobras,
X-Ray Spex,
Skarface,
Swans,
The Golliwogs,
Robert Hood,
Funkadelic,
Matthew Halsall,
Lower 48,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Pet Shop Boys,
Ten City,
The Motions,
The Slits,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Skatalites,
Urselle,
Little Man,
Stiv Bators,
The Slackers,
Intrusion,
Scan 7,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Fuzztones,
Black Sheep,
Sun Ra,
Alice Coltrane,
Scientists,
Q and Not U,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Isaac Hayes,
Alton Ellis,
MDC,
Radio Birdman,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Average White Band, Average White Band, Average White Band, Average White 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.