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 Venezuela and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 The Peanut Butter Conspiracy to the grime kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Major Organ And The Adding Machine. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Associates 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 an oboe and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joe Finger record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marshall Jefferson,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Siglo XX,
Guru Guru,
Anthony Braxton,
Ituana,
K-Klass,
Kool Moe Dee,
Animal Collective,
Ice-T,
a-ha,
One Last Wish,
Sällskapet,
The Cowsills,
Bobby Womack,
Marvin Gaye,
The Happenings,
Jerry's Kids,
Warren Ellis,
Hasil Adkins,
Grey Daturas,
Goldenarms,
Scratch Acid,
The Tremeloes,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Soulsonic Force,
The Motions,
Pussy Galore,
Vainqueur,
X-102,
Public Image Ltd.,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Panda Bear,
Y Pants,
L. Decosne,
The Trojans,
Erasure,
Visage,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Barclay James Harvest,
Scott Walker,
Archie Shepp,
Fluxion,
Kas Product,
Pole,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Tim Buckley,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
48th St. Collective,
Hashim,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Pet Shop Boys,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Doors,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
This Heat,
Deepchord,
Lou Christie,
Cheater Slicks,
Johnny Osbourne,
Bobby Sherman, Bobby Sherman, Bobby Sherman, Bobby Sherman.
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.