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 Russia and from Jakarta.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the sitar 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 Cecil Taylor 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 Danielle Patucci. All the underground hits.
All Tomorrow tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Silicon Teens 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Johnny Clarke record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Young Rascals,
Faust,
Sugar Minott,
Don Cherry,
Avey Tare,
Susan Cadogan,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Steve Hackett,
Archie Shepp,
Graham Central Station,
Black Moon,
Reuben Wilson,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Sarah Menescal,
Pantaleimon,
Carl Craig,
Kas Product,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Seeds,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Red Krayola,
Blake Baxter,
Derrick May,
Magazine,
Ken Boothe,
Rufus Thomas,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Residents,
Siglo XX,
the Association,
Gang Green,
Tim Buckley,
Crime,
Animal Collective,
The Blackbyrds,
Lebanon Hanover,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Eric Dolphy,
The Shadows of Knight,
Silicon Teens,
The Cure,
Jimmy McGriff,
The J.B.'s,
B.T. Express,
Chris Corsano,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Marcia Griffiths,
Spandau Ballet,
Stiv Bators,
Agitation Free,
Yusef Lateef,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Marvin Gaye,
Pole,
The Grass Roots,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Slits,
Lee Hazlewood,
Godley & Creme,
Groovy Waters,
Scott Walker,
Jawbox,
Sonic Youth,
Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan.
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.