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 Macedonia and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
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 Oneida to the techno kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Grandmaster Flash. All the underground hits.
All The Durutti Column 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 jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Slick Rick record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Q65,
Marine Girls,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Arab on Radar,
Joy Division,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Organ,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Stetsasonic,
Roger Hodgson,
Crash Course in Science,
Shuggie Otis,
Quadrant,
Kayak,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Minnie Riperton,
Ice-T,
The Gladiators,
the Bar-Kays,
Sister Nancy,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Flamin' Groovies,
Echospace,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Maleditus Sound,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Lou Reed,
Lakeside,
Prince Buster,
Black Flag,
Jacob Miller,
Delta 5,
Davy DMX,
Subhumans,
Reuben Wilson,
The Electric Prunes,
The Fugs,
June of 44,
Bobby Byrd,
The Slackers,
Spandau Ballet,
Reagan Youth,
Flipper,
Jesper Dahlback,
Lyres,
Trumans Water,
Cecil Taylor,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Amazonics,
T. Rex,
Pharoah Sanders,
Minutemen,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Jimmy McGriff,
Wolf Eyes,
Sonic Youth,
Bronski Beat,
Tim Buckley, Tim Buckley, Tim Buckley, Tim Buckley.
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.