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 Latvia and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 guitar 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 Magma to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Lucky Dragons. All the underground hits.
All Index tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soul II Soul 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sonic Youth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
the Slits,
Sandy B,
OOIOO,
Bluetip,
Girls At Our Best!,
Niagra,
Dawn Penn,
Cameo,
Aloha Tigers,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Divine Comedy,
Sonny Sharrock,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Cowsills,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Gichy Dan,
Yusef Lateef,
Altered Images,
Second Layer,
Sarah Menescal,
Bobby Womack,
The Offenders,
Nirvana,
Don Cherry,
Skriet,
Soul II Soul,
CMW,
Blossom Toes,
Crispian St. Peters,
Terrestrial Tones,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Max Romeo,
Outsiders,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Albert Ayler,
Franke,
The Names,
Nico,
Nik Kershaw,
kango's stein massive,
Byron Stingily,
Josef K,
Lyres,
Kenny Larkin,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Goldenarms,
Jerry's Kids,
Main Source,
Schoolly D,
Tomorrow,
The Index,
Fad Gadget,
The Sound,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
La Düsseldorf,
Robert Görl,
Wasted Youth,
AZ, AZ, AZ, AZ.
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.