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 Yemen and from Toronto.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the marimba 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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane to the grunge 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 Gastr Del Sol. All the underground hits.
All Newcleus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Stiv Bators 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a DeepChord presents Echospace record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Boogie Down Productions,
E-Dancer,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Music Machine,
Reagan Youth,
Ken Boothe,
ABBA,
K-Klass,
Ossler,
Eric Copeland,
Von Mondo,
The Gap Band,
The Black Dice,
Altered Images,
The Fortunes,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Birthday Party,
The Selecter,
Danielle Patucci,
Amazonics,
Tubeway Army,
Dorothy Ashby,
Junior Murvin,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
One Last Wish,
The Slackers,
Gil Scott Heron,
MDC,
Niagra,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Wings,
Ludus,
Toni Rubio,
Marvin Gaye,
Neil Young,
Oblivians,
Stockholm Monsters,
Eric Dolphy,
Gastr Del Sol,
Banda Bassotti,
Little Man,
Skaos,
Soul Sonic Force,
Agent Orange,
The Gladiators,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Half Japanese,
The Cramps,
Gang of Four,
Television,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Buzzcocks,
Khruangbin,
CMW,
The Electric Prunes,
Infiniti,
Spoonie Gee,
Section 25,
MC5,
A Certain Ratio,
Peter and Kerry,
The Saints,
Ohio Players,
Iggy Pop, Iggy Pop, Iggy Pop, Iggy Pop.
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.