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 Ghana and from Portland.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Groovy Waters to the grime kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon. All the underground hits.
All Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 a chamberlin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cecil Taylor record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Amon Düül,
Danielle Patucci,
Whodini,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Fad Gadget,
Excepter,
Hoover,
Gregory Isaacs,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Rapeman,
The Five Americans,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Pole,
Qualms,
Delta 5,
The Offenders,
Ponytail,
Mandrill,
Crime,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
LL Cool J,
Pet Shop Boys,
One Last Wish,
the Swans,
The Neon Judgement,
Scratch Acid,
The Pretty Things,
The Shadows of Knight,
Sugar Minott,
Ten City,
Japan,
Iggy Pop,
Boogie Down Productions,
Lou Christie,
Joe Smooth,
Mr. Review,
Joyce Sims,
Stockholm Monsters,
Grey Daturas,
Spoonie Gee,
Banda Bassotti,
Erykah Badu,
Big Daddy Kane,
Deepchord,
The Index,
Todd Terry,
John Cale,
Ronan,
Bobby Sherman,
8 Eyed Spy,
Nirvana,
Tears for Fears,
Agitation Free,
The Martian,
Neil Young,
Con Funk Shun,
Dawn Penn,
Althea and Donna,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Joey Negro,
Donald Byrd,
Little Man, Little Man, Little Man, Little Man.
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.