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 Guyana and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Lagos.
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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
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 Dual Sessions to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane. All the underground hits.
All Pantytec tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Goldenarms record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 spring reverb and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Crooked Eye record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
UT,
the Normal,
Accadde A,
ABC,
Yusef Lateef,
The United States of America,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Black Sheep,
Gang Starr,
The Happenings,
Ten City,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Half Japanese,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Rakim,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Lindisfarne,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
One Last Wish,
The Velvet Underground,
Harmonia,
The Selecter,
AZ,
Hot Snakes,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Newcleus,
The Gladiators,
Eve St. Jones,
the Germs,
Fear,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Desert Stars,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Barrington Levy,
Scan 7,
Ituana,
Piero Umiliani,
Lightning Bolt,
Spandau Ballet,
Michelle Simonal,
Quadrant,
Kenny Larkin,
Jeff Mills,
Infiniti,
Grandmaster Flash,
T.S.O.L.,
the Bar-Kays,
The Dave Clark Five,
Depeche Mode,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Jesper Dahlback,
Electric Light Orchestra,
X-101,
Ornette Coleman,
Quando Quango,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Minor Threat,
Khruangbin,
Colin Newman,
Sugar Minott,
Danielle Patucci,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Theoretical Girls,
Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts.
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.